Solar System

Curiosity is Back! Snapping Fresh Martian Vistas

Curiosity is back! After a multi-week hiatus forced by a computer memory glitch, NASA’s mega rover is back to full…

12 years ago

MESSENGER Sees a Smoother Side of Mercury

During its two years in orbit around Mercury -- as well as several more years performing flybys -- the MESSENGER…

12 years ago

Enceladus’ Jets Reach All the Way to its Sea

Thanks to the Cassini mission we've known about the jets of icy brine spraying from the south pole of Saturn's…

12 years ago

Curiosity Discovers Environment Where Life Could have Thrived on Ancient Mars

After analyzing the first powder ever drilled from the interior of a Martian rock, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered some of…

12 years ago

NASA’s KaBOOM Experimental Asteroid Radar Aims to Thwart Earth’s Kaboom

Over the past month, about a half dozen rather large asteroids have careened nearby our home planet and in one…

12 years ago

Solar Storm Blasting to Mars Shuts Down Curiosity – 1st Rocky Sample Results on tap

Due to a fast approaching solar storm, NASA has temporarily shut down surface operations of the Curiosity Mars Science Lab…

12 years ago

Russian Asteroid Explosion and Past Impactors Paint a Potentially Grim Future for Earth

The recent meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk brought to the forefront a topic that has worried astronomers for years, namely that an impactor…

12 years ago

Curiosity’s Landing Leftovers

During its "seven minutes of terror" landing on August 6, 2012, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory dropped quite a few things…

12 years ago