Water detection at Gusev crater described
Color picture of Gusev crater. Image credit: ESA Click to enlarge A large team of NASA scientists, led by earth…
Future Titan Mission Shield Blasted By Radiation
NASA and Sandia National Laboratories have been using a powerful solar tower to test new spacecraft materials. The tower reflects…
Earth-Like Planets Should Be Easy Spot While They’re Forming
Researchers at the Washington University in St. Louis have developed a "field guide" for planet hunters searching for other Earths.…
Asteroid Ceres Could Have Large Amounts of Water
New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope indicate that the largest asteroid in the Solar System, Ceres, might have huge…
Biblis Patera Volcano
This is an image of the Biblis Patera volcano's caldera which was taken by the ESA's Mars Express spacecraft. Biblis…
Surprising Insights Into Comet Tempel 1
Even though Deep Impact smashed into Comet Tempel 1 several months ago, scientists are still analyzing the data gathered before…
Saturn’s Deep Dynamic Clouds
Cassini has found that Saturn, like the Earth, has many different kinds of clouds. Some are hazy bands, high up…
What’s Up This Week – September 5 – September 11, 2005
Greetings, fellow Sky Watchers! While the Moon will figure prominently in our studies this week, let's start off with telescopic…
Cassini Scientists Make New Ring Discoveries
Cassini scientists have announced a host of new findings about Saturn's rings, including some new knotted structures in the planet's…
Star Gobbles Up Its Friend
The ESA's Integral space observatory and NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer spacecraft have found a rapidly spinning pulsar in the…