1+ day, 12+ min ago   (1007+ words) These extraordinary images from orbit reveal our planet, and the cosmos beyond, from a perspective few humans ever experience For more than two decades, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have enjoyed one of the most extraordinary views imaginable…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (338+ words) The European Space Agency released a video showing BepiColombo's view as it travelled across the Solar System After nearly eight years navigating the inner Solar System, the BepiColombo mission has released incredible footage showing the spacecraft's voyage through the inner…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1892+ words) Interview with astronomer Cyrielle Opitom who co-led a study of comet 3I/ATLAS using the Very Large Telescope Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is one of the biggest stories in space science in recent years. From the moment of its discovery in July…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (742+ words) A review of Scott Solomon's book 'Becoming Martian' and a Q&A with the author Becoming Martian is an inspiring deep dive into how humans might live, thrive and conceive future generations on Mars. But it also explores how those…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (461+ words) Planetary defence scientists caught an asteroid smashing into Earth off the coast of Australia this week – and only had a 6-hour warning that it would impact. On Sunday, September 6, 2026, automated tracking telescopes at the Mount Lemmon Observatory in Arizona, USA picked…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (308+ words) On September 1, 2026, NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot stepped out of the Quest Joint Airlock to perform the sixth all-female spacewalk in the history of human spaceflight. Orbiting 400km (250 miles) above Earth and travelling at 17,200mph (27,600 kph),…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (281+ words) Chinese probe takes a picture of the ‘quasi-satellite’ Kamoʻoalewa near Earth China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has returned the first-ever close-range images of our planet’s ‘mini moon’ Kamoʻoalewa, after closing to within 20km (12 miles) of the space rock. Tianwen-2 was launched on 28 May…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (317+ words) Study examines whether microbes might survive the journey between Earth and Venus A study suggests that microscopic life blasted off Earth by asteroid impacts could have reached Venus’s atmosphere over billions of years – raising the possibility that any life in…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (426+ words) NASA's Perseverance rover’s discovery of widespread complex carbon on Mars adds fresh clues to the hunt for past life Scientists have confirmed one of the most extensive detections yet of complex organic carbon on Mars, found in mudstones in an…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (228+ words) The BepiColombo mission begins its Mercury Arrival Phase on 3 September 2026 It's been eight years since the European Space Agency's BepiColombo spacecraft lifted off on its journey to Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun. Today, 3 September 2026 at 11:45 UTC (13:45 CEST / 07:45 EDT),…...