NASA’s new budget is big on other worlds but ignores our own
The NASA Transition and Authorization Act instructs the space agency to send humans to Mars, robots to Europa and look for life - but not to study Earth
Musk’s moon trip ‘tourists’ should be praised as pioneers
Fee-paying astronauts are pioneers in helping create a revolution in commercial space flight that will benefit us all, says Richard Garriott de Cayeux
SpaceX plans to send two civilians around the moon next year
The private space flight company has already received a deposit from two would-be space tourists who hope to fly in late 2018 – if the spacecraft is ready
Voyager 1 might have seen Enceladus’ icy plumes 25 years early
A space image-processing enthusiast claims that he’s found signs of Saturn’s moon’s majestic plumes from 1980 – decades before they were discovered
Successful Russian launch re-paves the way to space station
Russia's Soyuz rocket - currently the only way to get to the International Space Station - has had its first successful trip since a failed launch in December, restoring astronauts' ability to get to space
New NASA teams will make human Mars missions light and efficient
NASA just funded two new institutes to develop technology for future space missions: one to make lighter materials, one to help build with the resources on Mars itself
Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material
The first evidence of organic material on Ceres opens the door to the possibility that other asteroids harbour precursors to primitive life
Mars landing sites for 2020 NASA mission down to the final three
At a meeting in California, NASA scientists whittled down the landing sites for its next rover - which will search for signs of life
Magnetic meteorites narrow down solar system’s birthdate
Magnetic fields in 4-billion-year-old rocks suggest the dust and gas cloud that spawned the solar system had gone by 3.8 million years after the sun formed
NASA wants to put a lander on Europa’s surface to look for life
If it goes ahead, the proposed lander mission would be NASA’s first search for life on the surface of another planet since the Mars Viking missions in the late seventies