Scientists have used data from NASA's Cassini mission to delve into the impact craters on the surface of Titan, revealing more detail than ever before about how the craters evolve and how weather drives changes on the surface of Saturn's mammoth moon.
A portion of the Sahara Desert is pictured in Chad as the International Space Station orbited above the sparsely-populated African nation.
After years of detective work, scientists working on the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta mission have now been able to locate where the Philae lander made its second and penultimate contact with the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014, before finally coming to a halt 30 metres away.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has successfully placed the spacecraft's sample collector head into its Sample Return Capsule (SRC).
Beyond the orbit of Neptune, a diverse collection of thousands of dwarf planets and other relatively small objects dwells in a region called the Kuiper Belt.
A portion of the Sahara Desert is pictured in Chad as the International Space Station orbited above the sparsely-populated African nation.
