Planet News
How to See Comet Siding Spring as it Encounters Mars
With excitement building as Comet Siding Spring rapidly approaches the Red Planet, we'll soon have the opportunity to spot it…
India’s MOM Snaps Spectacular Portrait of New Home – the Red Planet
MOM is truly something special. For her latest eye popping feat, India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has snapped the first…
MAVEN Arrives at Mars! Parks Safely in Orbit
138 million miles and 10 months journey from planet Earth, MAVEN moved into its new home around the planet Mars this evening. Flight…
Bumper Car Moonlets Crash and Crumble in Saturn’s F Ring
Nothing stands still. Everything evolves. So why shouldn't Saturn's kookie, clumpy F ring put on a new face from time…
Watch Pluto and Charon Engage in Their Orbital Dance
Now here's something I guarantee you've never seen before: a video of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon…
Power Up! Distant Uranus Sees A Storm Surge Of ‘Monstrous’ Proportions
Who can imagine Uranus as a quiet planet now? The Keck Observatory caught some spectacular pictures of the gas giant…
These Mercury Crater Pictures Look Like Amazing Abstract Art
We're lucky to have a spacecraft looking at Mercury and sending back information like this. NASA's MESSENGER satellite just beamed…
Companion Planet Could Keep Alien Earths Warm In Old Age: Study
People are generally social creatures, and in the case of planets that generally is the case as well. Many of…
‘Vulnerable’ Earth-Like Planets Could Survive With Friction: Study
If you're a potentially habitable world orbiting in a zone where liquid water can exist -- and then a rude…
Curiosity Captures Mercury from Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover may be busy exploring the rugged and rocky interior of Gale Crater, but it does get a…