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The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, will target 15 October to 14 November 2019 for launch.

NASA is just days away from plopping its robotic geoscientist, the Mars InSight lander, onto the surface of the Red Planet -- but if all goes smoothly, the explorer won't have much of a view to enjoy.

This image shows galaxy NGC 5033's spiral arms, dotted with blue clusters of hot, young stars still forming, while older, cooler stars populate the galaxy's center causing it to appear redder....

Mars has a nasty habit of living up to its mythological name and besting Earth when it comes to accepting visitors.

We all know that the time is past due for a Moon base. But the cost of sending everything needed from Earth to build a base is prohibitive. Earth’s gravity well is too deep and too strong to get everything there with r...

ESA's Mars Express has imaged an intriguing part of the Red Planet's surface: a rocky, fragmented, furrowed escarpment lying at the boundary of the northern and southern hemisphere.

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 28, to discuss select science investigations launching on the next SpaceX commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station.

A European antenna in Australia will soon be tracking a US mission currently preparing to land on Mars.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Our week through the lens: 19 - 23 November 2018

The STEM toy company littleBits has a Black Friday 2018 deal just might perfect for your little superhero: The Marvel Avengers Hero Inventor Kit, but you better act fast. Amazon is offering the STEM kit at a deep discoun...

The Red Planet will receive its first new resident in six years on Monday when NASA's InSight lander touches down, aiming to investigate the Martian interior. ESA ground stations and orbiters are playing a crucial role i...

The most distant object in space that we can see with our unaided eyes, the Andromeda Galaxy, is located more than 2 million light-years away -- but you can see it in the early evening night sky this autumn.

Look out, International Space Station, this spacecraft is hot on your tail! European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, the station's Expedition 57 commander, took the amazing video on Nov. 16, 2018.

Earth observation image of the week: Copernicus Sentinel-3 takes us over the Gulf

In this edition, explore the area around the Gulf with Copernicus Sentinel-3

Vega is proving its reliability. Based on this heritage, ESA and European industry are building new elements that will increase Vega's performance, capabilities and flexibility from mid-2019.

An international team of astronomers recently located a triple star system in our galaxy that will someday unleash a massive gamma-ray burst. The post Massive Triple Star System Creates this Bizarre Swirling Pinwheel of ...