Slowed by skimming through the very top of the upper atmosphere, ESA’s ExoMars has lowered itself into a planet-hugging orbit and is about ready to begin sniffing the Red Planet for methane.

NASA is developing a spacesuit with a built-in toilet system, something the agency hasn’t used regularly since the Apollo era.

A single launch pumps a relatively small amount of emissions into the atmosphere, but SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has suggested sending a millio…

See photos from Expedition 54’s spacewalks outside the International Space Station.

Expedition 54 Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei of NASA and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have completed a spacewalk lasting 5 hours and 57 minutes.

A Russian cargo craft is on its way to the International Space Station early Thursday as two astronauts get ready for a spacewalk on Friday.

The Expedition 54 crew is getting ready for a spacewalk Friday morning and beginning the work to unload a newly-arrived cargo delivery.

Earth and the moon are two bright dots floating in an immense black void in a new photo captured by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Jan. 17 from a distance of 39.5 million miles (63.6 million kilometers).

NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover just discovered a geological formation that looks shockingly Earth-like.

NASA’s long-lived Mars rover Opportunity has just rolled past another big milestone — 5,000 days on the Red Planet.

See swirling cloud formations in the northern area of Jupiter’s north temperate belt in this new view taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

A dark storm on Neptune, once big enough to reach from Boston to Portugal, is dwindling to nothing as the Hubble Space Telescope keeps watch

A chunk of rock that was once part of Mars, but landed on Earth as a meteorite, will return to the Red Planet aboard a NASA rover set to launch in 2020.

A gorgeous, newly released photo by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows the Saturn moon Enceladus spraying its geysers into space, with the gas giant’s rings as a backdrop.

While the Winter Olympics is in full swing in PyeongChang, South Korea, and many winter sport fanatics head to snow-clad mountains to get their thrills on the slopes this ski-season, this dramatic mountain scene is somewhat off-piste – in Saturn’s rings to be precise.These fluffy peaks ar…

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft captured gorgeous views of a total solar eclipse on Sunday (Feb. 11), making the mission’s birthday even more special.

Astronomers poring through data gathered during the Kepler space telescope’s current extended mission, known as K2, have spotted 95 new alien planets.

A stunning photo from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a barred spiral galaxy in clear detail.

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was delivered via truck to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center on Monday (Feb. 12), about two months ahead of the instrument’s planned launch.

Keith’s note: The National Space Council (NSpC) is having a big, potentially lavish, meeting at NASA KSC on 21 February in 5 days. This is a FACA (Federal Advisory Committee Act) committee – yet no public announcement has been made in advance of this public meeting in the Federal Register per…

„Vice President Mike Pence, Chairman of the National Space Council, today announced the candidates selected to serve on the National Space Council’s Users Advisory Group. Pending official appointment by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the selected members of…

Keith’s note: In the NASA FY 2019 Budget Estimates document released by NASA today, there is a claim that both the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) or Aerospace Advisory Panel (ASAP) have „No new formal recommendations or findings for the ISS“. This is incorrect as listed below.

Keith’s 14 Feb note: Note that the all of the entries for this Solar Electric Propulsion project are blank (as is the case for RESTORE-L listed just before it in the document) and that there is a place holder image of a mountain with „Caption for Picture (No more than 10 lines)“.

Bigelow Space Operations Announces Partnership with CASIS to Fly Payloads to the International Space Station

The Progress MS-08 cargo spacecraft pulled into its orbital docking port on Thursday after a two-day journey to the International Space Station, marking the delivery of 2,494 Kilograms of cargo to the orbiting outpost.

Traveling about 250 miles over the east of the Philippines, the Progress 69 Russian cargo spacecraft docked to the aft end of the service module of the International Space Station at 5:38 a.m. EST.

After a two-day delay, Russia’s Soyuz 2-1A rocket lifted off from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 8:13:33 UTC on February 13, 2018 on a nine-minute climb into orbit with the Progress MS-08 cargo spacecraft headed to the International Space Station. With plans for an express, two-orbit…

After a two-day delay, Russia’s Soyuz 2-1A rocket lifted off from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 8:13:33 UTC on February 13, 2018 on a nine-minute climb into orbit with the Progress MS-08 cargo spacecraft headed to the International Space Station. With plans for an express, two-orbit…

China conducted its seventh orbital space launch of the year on Monday with a Long March 3B rocket placing the next pair of Beidou-3 navigation satellites into orbit to join the country’s growing Global Navigation Satellite System that is expected to reach operational strength later this year.

In a Feb. 13 solicitation, the Air Force announced it will “conduct a full and open competition” for the production of 22 GPS 3 satellites.

mit ihrem kuriosen ‚Aufsatz‘: Jetzt ist es eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit über ihren Orbit, die für Schlagzeilen – wie hier, hier, hier, hier und hier – sorgt, allerdings auc…

Feeling some Falcon Heavy withdrawal? You can relive the drama and spectacle of the giant SpaceX rocket’s maiden launch, thanks to a new video that shows the journey of Elon Musk’s Tesla and its mannequin driver, „Starman,“ out to deep space.

NASA has certified the current version of the SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch some categories of science missions, a milestone needed for an upcoming launch.

SpaceX has delayed the launch of its next Falcon 9 rocket to no earlier than Wednesday (Feb. 21) to allow final checks of the rocket’s upgraded nose cone.

Lego has created a stunning new version of the Millennium Falcon for the 2018 film „Solo: A Star Wars Story,“ which details the adventures of a young Han Solo. See photos of this first Solo Lego set here!

Der Google Lunar X Prize, ausgeschrieben von der X Prize Foundation, hat dem Team 30 Millionen US-Dollar versprochen, das – ohne Hilfe einer staatlichen Raumfahrtagentur – einen Mondrover sicher auf dem Mond landet und mit diesem dort auch eine bestimmte Strecke zurücklegt. Das Datum, bis wann…

Leaders of the American Astronomical Society have denounced the White House’s proposed cancellation of NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has issued a statement of support for SpaceX’s envisioned Starlink constellation, a huge network of Earth-orbiting spacecraft that will provide internet service to folks around the world.

U.S. intelligence report: “Russia and China aim to have nondestructive and destructive counter-space weapons available for use during a potential future conflict.”

DARPA, which has a checkered history of supporting new launch vehicles, is planning to start a competition offering prizes for responsive launch systems.

„NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded the dawn of the rover’s 4,999th Martian day, or sol, with its Panoramic Camera (Pancam) on Feb. 15, 2018, yielding this processed, approximately true-color scene.“

A private initiative to launch the first German woman fly into space has a new candidate. Astronomer Suzanna Randall has taken the place of an earlier chosen fighter pilot in Die Astronautin (The Female Astronaut) and will train for a possible space station mission.

Medienvertreter sind eingeladen, am Montag, den 26. Februar in den Reinräumen von Airbus im britischen Portsmouth im Beisein von ESA-Astronaut Tim Peake an der Besichtigung des Satelliten Eutelsat Quantum teilzunehmen.

The constant ‘rain’ of radiation in space includes cosmic rays, which, despite the name ‘ray’, comprises highly energetic particles arriving from beyond the Solar System. These rays are considered the main health hazard for astronauts conducting future exploration missions to the Moon, Ma…

„NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded the dawn of the rover’s 4,999th Martian day, or sol, with its Panoramic Camera (Pancam) on Feb. 15, 2018, yielding this processed, approximately true-color scene.“

If Pluto swept up carbon as it formed, it could hold a carbon-rich layer beneath its crust. The material could be liquid and asphalt-like, or solid graphite.

Ab jetzt wird es ernst: Das EDEN ISS-Labor in der Antarktis ist aufgebaut, die ersten Keimlinge werden in die Wachstumsschränke gesetzt, und der Großteil des Teams des Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und…

Leonid Kadenyuk, the first astronaut from an independent Ukraine who made his first and only flight aboard space shuttle Columbia in the late 1990s, has died. Kadenyuk, 67, was on his morning run in a park in Kiev when he suffered a heart attack on Jan. 31, 2018.

On Feb. 20, 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. See behind-the-scenes shots of his historic flight and the training he underwent to prepare for it.