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Explore the International Space Station’s Harmony module in this full panorama with your mobile phone or VR headset

The latest pair of navigation satellites has reached Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, beginning a new Galileo launch campaign, which will culminate in a launch on 24 May.

Rosetta’s comet has been seen changing colour and brightness in front of the ESA orbiter’s eyes, as the Sun’s heat strips away the older surface to reveal fresher material.

Since its launch six months ago, a satellite small enough to fit in an airline passenger’s carry-on bag has been tracking aircraft in flight across the entire globe.

Join us Friday, 8 April, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-1A image of the Bernese Alps in Switzerland

An international team of scientists has found evidence of a series of massive supernova explosions near our solar system, which showered the Earth with radioactive debris.

A team of astronomers has discovered one of the youngest and brightest free-floating, planet-like objects within relatively close proximity to the Sun.

NASA’s principal website received its eighth Webby Award nomination for government website, and NASA’s social media team has received its second nomination for social media presence.

Despite only being in orbit a matter of weeks, Sentinel-3A has already delivered some impressive first images. With the thermal-infrared channels now turned on, the satellite completes its set of firsts with a view of ocean features off th…

Technology image of the week: Hawaii, home to Earth’s largest volcano, as imaged by Proba-V, among ESA’s smallest Earth-observing satellites

Astronomers have uncovered a near-record-breaking supermassive black hole weighing 17 billion Suns.

Given scientists’ current understanding of how often galaxies merge, limits point to fewer detectable pairs of supermassive black holes than previously expected.

The NASA spacecraft that was launched 15 years ago this week carried the name 2001 Mars Odyssey and the hopes for reviving a stymied program of exploring the Red Planet.

NASA’s NEOWISE spacecraft discovered 72 near-Earth objects and characterized 439 others in its first two years of operations.

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Testing ways of taking samples from dusty, low-gravity moons and asteroids

A massive impact could have temporarily increased the planet’s atmospheric pressure, periodically heating Mars up enough to “re-start” a dormant water cycle.

From its perch high on a ridge, the rover recorded an image of a martian dust devil twisting through the valley below.

From its perch high on a ridge, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded an image of a Martian dust devil twisting through the valley below.

Sea level rise is a global issue affecting millions. Now, a JPL-developed Web portal gives researchers, decision makers and the public alike a new resource to stay up to date.

While the precise nature of the system remains unclear, the data imply that it is unusual and exotic.

New research shows that the radio emission believed to be an afterglow actually originated from a distant galaxy’s core and was unassociated with the fast radio burst.

Space Science Image of the Week: The Hubble Space Telescope snapped this view of a beautiful, but deceptive, planetary nebula

Beginning today, all Earth imagery from a prolific Japanese remote sensing instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft since 1999 is now available to users everywhere at no cost.

Our week through the lens: 28 March – 1 April 2016

Astronomers report a wellspring of new brown dwarf stellar companions, throwing cold water on the entire idea of the “brown dwarf desert,” the previously mystifying lack of these sub-stellar objects around stars.

Competition to develop the next generation interactive Space App with ESA, deadline 15 April

NASA’s long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is driving to an alternative hillside target after a climb on the steepest slope ever tackled by any Mars rover.

NASA’s long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is driving to an alternative hillside target after a climb on the steepest slope ever tackled by any Mars rover.

A new way to detect underground forest fungi from space could help researchers predict how climate change will alter forest habitats.

Decades of searching in the Milky Way’s nearby ‘twin’ galaxy Andromeda have finally paid off, with the discovery of an elusive breed of stellar corpse, a neutron star, by ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope.

Operations image of the week: Teams at ESA’s mission control in intensive simulation training for Sentinel-1B liftoff

Join us Friday, 1 April, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-3A image of the River Nile and surroundings

Explore NASA’s space laboratory for the International Space Station from every angle in this panorama

New images reveal never-before-seen details in the planet-forming disk around a nearby Sun-like star, including a tantalizing gap at the same distance from the star as Earth is from the Sun.

The map reveals extreme temperature swings from one side of the planet to the other, and hints that a possible reason for this is the presence of lava flows.

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: Iceberg seen from International Space Station

Observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have led to the first temperature map of a super-Earth planet — a rocky planet nearly two times as big as ours.

NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to create “Destination: Mars,” a guided tour of a part of Mars using technologies that help scientists plan the Curiosity rover’s activities.

Technology image of the week: this spiky foam absorbs sound as well as radio waves, helping to simulate space conditions for satellite testing

The stellar explosion occurred when two white dwarfs collided. Understanding type Ia supernovae causes more precisely will give astronomers greater insight into the expansion rate of the universe.

Following the discovery of gravitational waves from the merging of two black holes, the satellite has revealed no simultaneous gamma rays, just as models predicted.

Space science image of the week: A super-cold filament of dust contains 800 times as much matter as our Sun

The astronomers’ achievement produced a pair of scientific surprises that promise to advance the understanding of quasars, supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies.

Scientists have pinpointed a mechanism by which cyclical tidal stresses exerted by Saturn can drive Enceladus’ long-lived eruptions.

Passing comets could provide an answer to the decades-old mystery of the ‘Wow!’ signal, if researchers can afford the equipment to check.

As part of a project to improve energy pipeline industry safety, researchers have successfully flight tested a mini JPL methane gas sensor on a small unmanned aerial system.

How do some gas giant planets end up so feverishly close to their stars? NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope finds new clues.

Observations of an extreme-weather planet raise questions about hot Jupiters’ origins

While the cause of communication failure is under investigation, JAXA received short signal from the satellite and is working for recovery.

NASA has selected 36 fellows for its prestigious Einstein, Hubble and Sagan fellowships.

Our week through the lens: 21-25 March 2016

New research suggests that the birth of some of Saturn’s icy moons, as well as its famous rings, might have taken place a mere 100 million years ago.

Astronomers captured detailed radar images of a comet that passed Earth this week.

In a nod to extraterrestrial mountaineers of the future, scientists working on NASA’s Cassini mission have identified the highest point on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.

Operations image of the week: A team of teams at ESA’s operations centre assumes control of humanity’s next mission to the Red Planet

Join us Friday, 25 March, at 10:00 CET for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-2A image of the Etosha salt pan in Namibia

Explore the heart of the Russian segment of the International Space Station in this global view

Titan’s tallest peak is 10,948 feet high and is found within a trio of mountainous ridges called the Mithrim Montes.

Nestled within the fractured rim of a vast impact basin on Mars are valley floors dusted in frost.

The spin axis of the Moon has moved by at least 6°, and that motion is recorded in ancient lunar ice deposits.

NASA is sending Earth scientists around the world in 2016 to study how our planet is changing.

Following a spectacular liftoff, ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is performing flawlessly en route to the Red Planet.

Technology image of the week: ESA’s new microvibration machine can measure the forces imparted by a single dropped feather

Scientists estimate that the newly observed galaxies identified are about 10 billion years old and were formed only about 4 billion years after the Big Bang.

New research finds solar storms trigger the northern lights by generating a new X-ray aurora that is eight times brighter than normal and hundreds of times more energetic than Earth’s aurora borealis.

Dawn mission scientists have unveiled new images from the spacecraft’s lowest orbit at Ceres, including the mysterious bright spots in Occator Crater.

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Last sunlit lunch in solitude at Concordia research station in Antarctica