This month in the news: the asteroids we're visiting, the one that quietly visited us, and a new method of Martian exploration.

This month in the news: the Japanese Hayabusa 2 probe, Israel's Beresheeft lunar craft, and a fond farewell to Opportunity.

This month in the news: the United States government shutdown and Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope

This month in the news: The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission, the recent New Horizons fly-by, and the Chinese Moon landing.

This month in the news: a gamma ray burst candidate, the Sun's long-lost twin, and black holes in virtual reality.

This month in the news: the slowest-spinning pulsar ever discovered, elusive dust clouds around the Earth finally detected and the Hubble Space Telescope returns.

This month in the news: Hayabusa-2 rovers, black holes and the woman who discovered Pulsers

This month in the news: NASA goes all-American - again, the launch of the Parker solar probe, and getting in touch with Opportunity.

This month in the news: K2 is forced to hibernate, a particle appears in Antarctica and a new scale for close encounters.

This month in the news: a LIGO afterglow, complex organics from Enceladus, and Prof. Hawking takes on eternal inflation.