Saturn’s flying saucer moon Atlas has a smooth fluffy edge
The Cassini spacecraft just made its final flyby of the small moon Atlas, grabbing the best pictures yet and showing a surprising softness
Mars’s atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn’t exist
Earth’s magnetic field provokes layers of iron and magnesium in the atmosphere, but Mars has no such field - so finding similar layers is a surprise
NASA funds radical Pluto hopper and cosmic echolocation concepts
The space agency just announced the recipients of its Innovative Advanced Concepts programme, which kickstarts researchers’ so-crazy-it-just-might-work ideas
Backwards asteroid shares an orbit with Jupiter without crashing
A rare retrograde asteroid has been spotted in Jupiter's orbital zone - and nudges from the giant planet may have kept it stable there for a million years
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