NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has begun the steep ascent of an iron-oxide-bearing ridge that’s grabbed scientists’ attention since before the car-sized rover’s 2012 landing.

Technology image of the week: the simulated multi-sensor view from a debris-catching chaser mission, targeting a derelict satellite

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Pangaea geology course field trip

It’s time to test the spacecraft’s systems as it flies deeper into the Kuiper Belt.

With a day and a half to go until Cassini’s demise, here’s what you need to know about the intrepid spacecraft.

ESA’s Kevin McMullan and Claus Zehner join the Earth from Space video programme from the cleanroom to discuss the Sentinel-5P satellite and its mission

I always feel like, somebody’s watchin’ me…

The international Cassini mission reaches its dramatic finale this Friday by plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere, concluding 13-years of exploration around the ringed planet.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is headed toward its Sept. 15 plunge into Saturn, following a final, distant flyby of the planet’s giant moon Titan.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is headed toward its Sept. 15 plunge into Saturn, following a final, distant flyby of the planet’s giant moon Titan.

One of Cassini’s last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a distance

In a few million years, things are going to get ugly.

Space Science Image of the Week: As Cassini makes its last flyby of Titan today, setting it on course for Friday’s mission end, we recall Huygens’ descent to this mysterious moon

Our week through the lens: 4-8 September 2017

A cloud of gas in our galaxy’s center might house this long-sought-after object.

For the first time, scientists have detected sea level “fingerprints” — patterns of variation in global sea level due to changes in water and ice on land — in GRACE data.

For the first time, scientists have detected sea level “fingerprints” — patterns of variation in global sea level due to changes in water and ice on land — in GRACE data.

As the Cassini spacecraft nears the end of a long journey rich with scientific and technical accomplishments, it is already having a powerful influence on future exploration.

As the Cassini spacecraft nears the end of a long journey rich with scientific and technical accomplishments, it is already having a powerful influence on future exploration.

Paolo Nespoli sends a video greeting from the International Space Station to everyone at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre on the occasion of its 50th anniversary

Join us Friday, 8 September, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme

Our Sun threw out two large flares the morning of September 6, and it may not be done.

Fifty years ago tomorrow, the European Space Operations Centre was inaugurated in Darmstadt, Germany. Since then, the centre has become known worldwide as Europe’s ‘Gateway to Space’. 

Juno has observed massive amounts of energy over Jupiter’s polar regions that contribute to the giant planet’s powerful aurora.

Juno has observed massive amounts of energy over Jupiter’s polar regions that contribute to the giant planet’s powerful aurora.

Technology image of the week: the Large European Acoustic Facility, built to blast satellites with simulated launch noise, will be on view during next month’s ESA Open Day in the Netherlands

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Hurricane Harvey seen from the International Space Station

Video footage recalling the one-of-a-kind journey of Cassini’s Huygens probe to the surface of Titan in 2005

Astronomers observed 15 new pulses from this mysterious source — now at higher frequencies than ever before.

Despite the welcome showers at the weekend, abnormally low soil-moisture conditions persist in central Italy. Scientists are using satellite data to monitor the drought that has gripped the country.

Watch our new video: 50 years of mission control in #Darmstadt #ESOC50

The Sentinel-5P satellite has arrived in Plesetsk in northern Russia to be prepared for liftoff on 13 October. Built to deliver global maps of air pollutants every day and in more detail than ever before, this latest Copernicus mission wil…

Space Science Image of the Week: Boosting Gaia’s science return with a special sky-mapping mode

Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronauts Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson returned to Earth this morning after their stay on the International Space Station, landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan. From there, Jack and Peggy flew to ESA’s European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.

Space Science Image of the Week: ESA’s Solar Orbiter will face the Sun from within the orbit of Mercury

Our week through the lens: 28 August – 1 September 2017

Ultraviolet radiation reaches the outer planets, improving the chances for liquid water.

Could you be one of them? If you want to share your passion of space with the public, being a NASA Solar System Ambassador is the perfect platform to do so.

Could you be one of them? If you want to share your passion of space with the public, being a NASA Solar System Ambassador is the perfect platform to do so.

Operations image of the week: Long before #MohawkGuy, ESA’s mission control had #HipsterHair

Keep an eye out for the asteroid on Friday.

21st century, meet IRL steampunk.

The movements of more than 300 000 stars surveyed by ESA’s Gaia satellite reveal that rare close encounters with our Sun might disturb the cloud of comets at the far reaches of our Solar System, sending some towards Earth in the distant future.

NASA and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum will celebrate 40 years of the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make its seventh science flyby over Jupiter’s mysterious cloud tops this Friday.

NASA and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum will celebrate 40 years of the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make its seventh science flyby over Jupiter’s mysterious cloud tops this Friday.

NASA is using its assets and expertise from across the agency, including from JPL, to help respond to Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey.

NASA is using its assets and expertise from across the agency, including from JPL, to help respond to Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey.

Star Storm, an explosive performance inspired by stellar processes in the Universe, will be premiered at the 2017 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, on 10 September.

Technology image of the week: Hardware that has been to space and back will be on show during ESA’s 8 October Open Day in the Netherlands

First observed 600 years ago, this binary system is providing vital clues to how novae work.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is 18 days from its mission-ending dive into the atmosphere of Saturn.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is 18 days from its mission-ending dive into the atmosphere of Saturn.

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: A particle accelerator recreates cosmic radiation

A little trash picking, a little scrap scrounging, and some father-son elbow grease turned a hunk of junk telescope into an eclipse machine.

This video of the eclipse from Gallatin, Tennessee, offers a great look back at totality.

Automatically stitching together multiple images from Sentinel-2, Austrian company EOX gives us an unobstructed view of Earth

Preparation of NASA’s next spacecraft to Mars, InSight, has ramped up this summer, on course for launch next May as the first interplanetary launch from California.

Preparation of NASA’s next spacecraft to Mars, InSight, has ramped up this summer, on course for launch next May as the first interplanetary launch from California.

A new algorithm can change the way Kepler measures brightness.

As international experts convene in Stockholm for World Water Week, discover how satellites help to manage this precious resource for irrigation

Space Science Image of the Week: Cassini is making its final dives between Saturn and its rings before the mission’s grand finale next month

A new study shows what happens in Mars’ atmosphere when the Sun sets.

Take a peek inside the Cassini team’s beloved tradition of Friday breakfast together.

The rapid intensification of Harvey is depicted in a new set of images from a pair of instruments on NASA’s Aqua satellite.

Mechanical computers could help explore an extremely unwelcoming planet.

The rapid intensification of Harvey is depicted in a new set of images from a pair of instruments on NASA’s Aqua satellite.

Mechanical computers could help explore an extremely unwelcoming planet.

Take a peek inside the Cassini team’s beloved tradition of Friday breakfast together.

The rapid intensification of Harvey is depicted in a new set of images from a pair of instruments on NASA’s Aqua satellite.

The rapid intensification of Harvey is depicted in a new set of images from a pair of instruments on NASA’s Aqua satellite.

Sentinel-3A takes Hurricane Harvey’s temperature as the storm gains strength and moves towards Texas

Earlier this month, radio dishes from three deep-space networks combined to catch faint ‘survival’ whispers from one of ESA’s Mars orbiters, underlining the value of international collaboration for exploring the Red Planet.

Our week through the lens: 21-25 August 2017

This is our best yet image of a star that’s not the Sun.

On Sept. 15, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will complete its remarkable story of exploration with an intentional plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere, ending its mission after nearly 20 years in space.

On Sept. 15, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will complete its remarkable story of exploration with an intentional plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere, ending its mission after nearly 20 years in space.

ESA participated in the Kid’s Weightless Dreams campaign organised by Novespace and Rêves de Gosse giving children with disabilities the opportunity to experience weightlessness and lunar gravity on a parabolic flight. 

ESA astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Matthias Maurer joined 16 Chinese astronauts earlier this month for nine days of sea survival training off China’s coastal city of Yantai. The ultimate goal is for ESA to establish a long term cooperation with China and ESA astronaut to fly on China’s space station.

A past Astronomy contributor compares his eclipse experiences.

This first-of-its-kind detection suggests there’s still much to learn about supernovae.

Operations image of the week: During the first open day at ESA’s centre in Germany in 1974, one young visitor kept his eye on the camera while crowds mobbed the main control room

Sentinel-2 shows blazes and dramatic burn scars from wildfires in Greece

Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have recreated the ice giants’ diamond rain.

A team of Chinese astronomers studied the Sun during the 117-second totality.

Technology image of the week: This crew of Polish ‘astronauts’ are testing altered perceptions of time during a two-week simulated stay on the Moon

ESA astronauts Matthias Maurer and Samantha Cristoforetti participate in Chinese sea survival training

Human spaceflight and robotic operations image of the week: Sun returns after four months of darkness in Antarctica

While ground-based observers experienced the awe-inspiring view of a total solar eclipse yesterday, astronauts aboard the International Space Station, and our Sun-watching satellites, enjoyed unique perspectives of this spectacular sight f…

Images from Earth and space as 21 August’s solar eclipse swept over the globe

The Sun as seen by SOHO and Proba-2 as astronomers prepare for today’s total solar eclipse

The Sun as seen by SOHO and Proba-2 as astronomers prepare for today’s total solar eclipse

Our week through the lens: 14 – 18 August 2017

They form the same as stars, but have the kind of wild weather typically seen on Jupiter or Neptune.

You can send in your photos of the eclipse as part of this historic effort.

Researchers have a new model for explaining how clouds move and change shape in brown dwarfs, using insights from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.

Researchers have a new model for explaining how clouds move and change shape in brown dwarfs, using insights from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.

NASA’s Eyes on the Eclipse application offers an easy preview of the event for any location.