Live coverage: ExoMars orbiter safely arrives at Mars, lander’s fate uncertain

Early risers wishing to see Venus as a dazzling ‘morning star’ need only glance low to the east in the pre-dawn sky. The planet reaches greatest brilliancy on Sunday, 20 September when, for a couple of mornings, it can be seen outshining brightest nighttime star Sirius in the southeast by a factor of seventeen times. Can you see your shadow cast by Venus?

OSIRIS-REx was so successful capturing samples from the surface of asteroid Bennu that engineers moved up plans to stow the material for return to Earth.

ESA’s Mars Express satellite, using ground-penetrating radar, has detected what appears to be a pool of liquid water below the red planet’s south polar region, a potentially habitable environment.