Water, water everywhere... Coleridge's shipbound ancient mariners were plagued by a lack of water while surrounded by a sea of…
This just in! Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a new moon around distant Pluto, bringing the…
Now that Cassini has gone off on a new trajectory taking it above and below the equatorial plane of Saturn,…
On June 28 NASA's Cassini spacecraft passed by Tethys, a 1,062-kilometer (662-mile) -wide moon of Saturn that's made almost entirely…
Saturn's hazy Titan is now on the short list of moons that likely harbor a subsurface ocean of water, based…
An international team of astronomers has figured out a way to determine details of an exoplanet's atmosphere from 50 light-years…
Scientists have discovered a new mineral embedded in a meteorite that fell to Earth over 40 years ago, and it…
Researchers from the Carnegie Institution have found that water is present in surprisingly Earthlike amounts within Mars' mantle, based on…
After almost 35 years traveling at over 35,000 mph, the venerable (and still operational!) Voyager 1 spacecraft is truly breaking…
This collection of craters, shaped not unlike the iconic head of a certain cartoon mouse, was imaged by NASA's MESSENGER…