This week in space: NASA drama, Exoplanets, the full Moon, Space Shuttle Endeavour.

Extreme environments around the world are proving grounds for hardware, software, protocols which will eventually help us when we return to the Moon and go to Mars and beyond. Explore with us some of the field tests recently undertaken in these analog env

A recap of events at NASA for the week ending December 12, 2008.

In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the sixth chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009.

Space.co.uk recently attended the 4th Appleton Conference where Will Whitehorn filmed this video about the Virgin Galactic customer experience.

Space.co.uk recently attended the 4th Appleton Conference where Will Whitehorn created this video about Virgin Galactic.

The central parts of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, as observed in the near-infrared with the NACO instrument on European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope.

Compared to early European explorers like Drake, today's space navigators use very different ships to discover other worlds and push back the frontiers of knowledge. See how ESA plans it next voyages of discovery.

Compared to early European explorers like Drake, today's space navigators use very different ships to discover other worlds and push back the frontiers of knowledge. See how ESA plans it next voyages of discovery.

Compared to early European explorers like Drake, today's space navigators use very different ships to discover other worlds and push back the frontiers of knowledge. See how ESA plans it next voyages of discovery.