Was Venus Once a Waterworld?
[/caption] Ever read Isaac Asimov's 1950's novel "Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus"? Maybe Asimov wasn't so wrong about…
Evidence for Past Water on Mars Keeps Flowing, This Time from Glaciers
[/caption] No sooner do we post one article about water on Mars when it's time for another. Planetary scientists have…
Partial Lunar Eclipse Visible June 26, 2010
Wake up, SkyWatchers! A partial lunar eclipse is coming your way on June 26, 2010. While the real visible action…
Water Was Widespread Across Early Mars, But No Oceans
By looking at the mineralogy deep inside craters on Mars' northern plains and comparing it to the makeup of regions…
Radio Observations Provide New Explanation for Hanny’s Voorwerp
[/caption] Is Hanny's Voorwerp the result of a "light echo" of a violent event that happened long ago or perhaps…
Who Will Win the Google Lunar X PRIZE?
Twenty-one teams are hard at work trying to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a $30 million international competition to…
Circumference and Diameter of the Earth
[/caption] The Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System, and the 3rd planet from the…
Earth Moved Substantially in April 2010 Earthquake
[/caption] From a JPL press release. NASA has released the first-ever airborne radar images of the deformation in Earth's surface…
Cosmologists Provide Closest Measure of Elusive Neutrino
[/caption] Cosmologists – and not particle physicists -- could be the ones who finally measure the mass of the elusive…
First Planet From the Sun
[/caption] The first planet from the Sun is Mercury, orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 57.91 million km.…