Chances for life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus rise dramatically.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first clear evidence that Saturn’s moon Enceladus exhibits signs of present-day hydrothermal activity
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Ceres, Ho!
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet. The spacecraft was approximately 38,000
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Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean . . . from wet world to dead planet.
A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories,
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My Favourite Picture by Andy Bollan (article).
I love this picture. I first saw it on NASA’a APOD website http://apod.nasa.gov/apod roughly 10 years ago. It looks like
Read MoreNASA’s empire of a thousand worlds.
How many stars like our sun host planets like our Earth? NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000
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Galaxy-frying X-ray burst from Milky Way’s supermassive black hole core.
Astronomers have observed the largest X-ray flare ever detected from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky
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There and back again . . . NASA’s Orion flies.
NASA marked a major milestone Friday on its journey to Mars as the Orion spacecraft completed its first voyage to
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Clear skies and water vapour found on alien exoplanet.
Astronomers using data from three of NASA’s space telescopes – Hubble, Spitzer and Kepler – have discovered clear skies and
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The mountains of Mars.
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has reached the Red Planet’s Mount Sharp, a Mount-Rainier-size mountain at the center of the vast
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NASA’s finds first Earth-Size habitable world.
Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” —
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