The flyby of 2004 BL86 will be the closest by any known space rock this large until asteroid 1999 AN10 flies past Earth in 2027.

The 12 instruments of the Next-Generation Transit Survey will focus on discovering Neptune-sized and smaller planets from Paranal Observatory in Chile.

Watch ESA DG’s traditional start-of-year media briefing on the activities for 2015, Friday 16 January. Streaming starts at 09:00 CET

Technology image of the week: this one-piece instrument housing was produced using a 3D printed mould

Looking back at a tremendous international accomplishment: landing a robotic probe on a moon of Saturn.

This week, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is preparing to drill its second sample of Mount Sharp. An upgraded version of its onboard software is ready for installation next week.

On its first launch of the year, Europe’s Vega rocket will loft ESA’s unmanned spaceplane to test reentry technologies for future vehicles.

NASA instruments on a mountaintop show that Los Angeles’ annual methane emissions are 18 to 61 percent higher than the best previous estimates.

The January 26 flyby of asteroid 2004 BL86 will be the closest by any known space rock this large until an asteroid flies past Earth in 2027.

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the pioneering Huygens mission to Saturn’s moon Titan, the first successful landing on an outer Solar System world

Meltwater rivers flowing on Greenland’s frozen surface may contribute as much to global sea level rise as all other processes that drain water from the ice sheet combined.

JPL employees were deeply saddened by the death of Dr. Alberto Behar, who died in the crash of a small plane on Friday, Jan. 10, near Van Nuys Airport in the Los Angeles area.

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, continuing to drive while engineers tackle a flash-memory issue, has reached a crater-rim high point on “Cape Tribulation.”

The same technology that suggests what movies you might like to watch is helping astronomers learn about stars.

A new NASA satellite that will peer into the topmost layer of Earth’s soils to measure the hidden waters that influence our climate is in final preparations for a Jan. 29 launch.

Signals from NASA’s Saturn-orbiting probe and the keen eyes of a continent-spanning telescope array yield greatly improved knowledge of the “true” center of the Saturn system.

New data from NASA’s NuSTAR mission determine which of two supermassive black holes is pouring out X-rays in a colliding pair of galaxies.

Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are developing robots to explore volcanoes.

Scientists have found what appear to be two supermassive black holes in the final stages of a merger, a rare event never seen before.

A new survey indicates that the Magellanic Clouds are bigger and more complex than previously thought.

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has, to date, offered scientists more than 4,000 candidate planets — the 1,000th of which was recently verified.

Citizen scientists are busy sifting through images from the WISE mission, logging 1 million potential planetary habitats.

NASA will hold a briefing at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) Thursday, Jan. 8, about the upcoming Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has a new science-team chief who has already helped lead the mission for a decade.

It’s active. It’s passive. And it’s got a big, spinning lasso.

A NASA-led study suggests that tropical forests absorb more carbon dioxide than scientists thought. That means, if left undisturbed, the tropical trees should be able to continue reducing the rate of global warming.

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has entered an approach phase in which it will continue to close in on Ceres, a Texas-sized dwarf planet never before visited by a spacecraft.

The future looks bright for CubeSats at JPL.

For the first time, a mission designed to set its eyes on black holes and other objects far from our solar system has turned its gaze back closer to home, capturing images of our sun.

Gecko-inspired grippers might one day help service satellites and collect orbital debris.

The famous Horsehead nebula takes on a ghostly appearance in this newly released image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.

The space pavilion will feature the wealth of ESA and German national programmes across all space domains, focusing on recent mission results and upcoming launches.

The space pavilion will feature the wealth of ESA and German national programmes across all space domains, focusing on recent mission results and upcoming launches.