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The most data-productive Mars spacecraft passed orbit 50,000 this week, continuing to compile the most sharp-eyed global coverage ever gathered by a camera at the Red Planet.

The most data-productive Mars spacecraft passed orbit 50,000 this week, continuing to compile the most sharp-eyed global coverage ever gathered by a camera at the Red Planet.

NASA has selected 28 fellows for its prestigious Einstein, Hubble and Sagan fellowships.

NASA will hold a news conference on Tuesday, April 4, at JPL, to preview the beginning of Cassini’s final mission segment (called the Grand Finale), which begins in late April.

NASA has selected 28 fellows for its prestigious Einstein, Hubble and Sagan fellowships.

NASA will hold a news conference on Tuesday, April 4, at JPL, to preview the beginning of Cassini’s final mission segment (called the Grand Finale), which begins in late April.

The distribution of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies isn’t a problem for the current cosmological model.

Technology image of the week: snow-dusted Norwegian fjords imaged by ESA’s Earth-observing Proba-V minisatellite

Peter Theisinger, who led projects that developed multiple NASA rovers that successfully landed on Mars, will receive a National Air and Space Museum Lifetime Achievement Trophy.

Peter Theisinger, who led projects that developed multiple NASA rovers that successfully landed on Mars, will receive a National Air and Space Museum Lifetime Achievement Trophy.

Two ancient sites on Mars that hosted an abundance of water in the planet’s early history have been recommended as the final candidates for the landing site of the 2020 ExoMars rover and surface science platform: Oxia Planum and Mawrth Vallis.

Two ancient sites on Mars that hosted an abundance of water in the planet’s early history have been recommended as the final candidates for the landing site of the 2020 ExoMars rover and surface science platform: Oxia Planum and Mawrth Vallis.

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration Image of the week: ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet during his second spacewalk

Water, water, everywhere, and this is what it means for the search for alien life.

This minor galaxy merger hosts a major surprise: a tiny galaxy with a huge black hole.

Discover our planet’s changing climate through the eyes of satellites with Climate from Space, a new digital book for iPad and Android tablets featuring interactive maps and video interviews with top scientists.

Discover our planet’s changing climate through the eyes of satellites with Climate from Space, a new digital book for iPad and Android tablets featuring interactive maps and video interviews with top scientists.

A look back on the preparations for the 7 March liftoff of Sentinel-2B

NASA has selected a science mission that will measure emissions from the interstellar medium, which is the cosmic material found between stars.

Robots zipped through a steampunk-themed competition this past weekend in Long Beach, California.

NASA has selected a science mission that will measure emissions from the interstellar medium, which is the cosmic material found between stars.

Robots zipped through a steampunk-themed competition this past weekend in Long Beach, California.

A supermassive black hole inside a tiny galaxy is challenging scientists’ ideas about what happens when two galaxies become one.

Space Science Image of the Week: New views of the ExoMars rover as teams discuss landing sites

Around 250 million measurements taken by ESA’s CryoSat over the last six years have been used to create a unique 3D view of Antarctica, offering a snapshot of the undulating surface of this vast ice sheet.

Around 250 million measurements taken by ESA’s CryoSat over the last six years have been used to create a unique 3D view of Antarctica, offering a snapshot of the undulating surface of this vast ice sheet.

NASA coral reef studies in Hawaii this winter will help scientists understand this unique environment and evaluate a possible satellite mission.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make its fifth flyby over Jupiter’s mysterious cloud tops on Monday, March 27, at 1:52 a.m. PDT (4:52 a.m. EDT, 8:52 UTC).

NASA coral reef studies in Hawaii this winter will help scientists understand this unique environment and evaluate a possible satellite mission.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make its fifth flyby over Jupiter’s mysterious cloud tops on Monday, March 27, at 1:52 a.m. PDT (4:52 a.m. EDT, 8:52 UTC).

New findings from ESA’s magnetic field Swarm mission were the highlight of ESA’s science conference in Canada

Our week through the lens: 20-24 March 2017

Photographer Gregor Sailer has been awarded at the European Architectural Prize 2017 for his depictions of space infrastructure

This pulsar aims high — it emits more energetic X-rays than Andromeda’s supermassive black hole.

This rogue black hole may have been ousted from the center of its galaxy by gravitational waves.

Satellite radar scans of last year’s earthquake in New Zealand are changing the way we are thinking about earthquake hazards in regions where our planet’s tectonic plates meet.

Satellite radar scans of last year’s earthquake in New Zealand are changing the way we are thinking about earthquake hazards in regions where our planet’s tectonic plates meet.

A new study finds last year’s magnitude 7.8 New Zealand earthquake was so complex and unusual it is likely to change how scientists think about quake hazards around the world.

JPL’s concept to study Venus was included among the 10 studies selected.

A new study finds last year’s magnitude 7.8 New Zealand earthquake was so complex and unusual it is likely to change how scientists think about quake hazards around the world.

JPL’s concept to study Venus was included among the 10 studies selected.

A new study finds last year’s magnitude 7.8 New Zealand earthquake was so complex and unusual it is likely to change how scientists think about quake hazards around the world.

The Milky Way’s closest neighbor, Andromeda, features a dominant source of high-energy X-ray emission, but its identity was mysterious until now.

A new study finds last year’s magnitude 7.8 New Zealand earthquake was so complex and unusual it is likely to change how scientists think about quake hazards around the world.

Watch live from Friday 10:30 GMT (11:30 CET) as Thomas Pesquet and Shane Kimbrough leave the International Space Station on a spacewalk

Join us Friday, 24 March, at 10:00 CET for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme.

Like the Greek god Cronus, some stars are not kind to their children.

Space is pretty cool — and so are the women who make spaceflight possible.

Designers of future Moon missions and bases have to contend with a chilling challenge: how might their creations endure the fortnight-long lunar night? ESA has arrived at a low-cost way of surviving.

Designers of future Moon missions and bases have to contend with a chilling challenge: how might their creations endure the fortnight-long lunar night? ESA has arrived at a low-cost way of surviving.

The tilt of Ceres’ rotation axis could be related to ice in shadowed regions, research from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests.

For more than 12 years, A.I. developed at JPL has tracked wildfires, floods and erupting volcanoes.

For more than 12 years, A.I. developed at JPL has tracked wildfires, floods and erupting volcanoes.

The tilt of Ceres’ rotation axis could be related to ice in shadowed regions, research from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests.

Operations image of the week: Engineers working in ESA’s control room in 1978

Technology image of the week: these small structures have been 3D printed out of simulated Mars dust

It was around the time the dinosaurs went extinct.

The Rosetta mission captured moving boulders and collapsing cliffs on the surface of comet 67P between 2014 and 2016.

World Water Day reminds us of the need to treat and reuse wastewater. Satellites like Sentinel-2 provide key information on water quality

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Testing virtual reality hardware for International Space Station experiments

Images from ESA Rosetta indicate that the surface of its target comet has had growing fractures, collapsing cliffs and massive rolling boulders.

Images from ESA Rosetta indicate that the surface of its target comet has had growing fractures, collapsing cliffs and massive rolling boulders.

A routine check of the aluminum wheels on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has found two small breaks on the rover’s left middle wheel-the latest sign of wear and tear as the rover continues its journey, now approaching the 10-mile (16 kilome…

JPL’s Deep Space Atomic Clock was recently joined to the spacecraft that will take it into Earth orbit.