Space Exploration News

Dec 12, 2013 by News Staff

Observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed what may be seasonal flows of salty water. Recurrent slope linea on the south-facing slope of a crater on the floor of Melas Chasma, Mars. Image credit: McEwen AS et al / NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona. Finger-like geological features, called recurrent slope linea, were first reported in 2011 on mid-latitude southern Martian slopes. They appear and extend down rocky...

Dec 10, 2013 by News Staff

Researchers from NASA’s Curiosity rover mission have found evidence that there was once an ancient lake on Mars that may have been able to support...

Dec 9, 2013 by News Staff

A team of astronomers from Japan and the United States using Subaru Telescope has captured an image of the comet C/2013 R1 Lovejoy’s ion tail. This...

Nov 29, 2013 by News Staff

Zircons – one of the most commonly used geochronometers – found within the Martian meteorite NWA 7533 have enabled an international team of scientists...

Nov 28, 2013 by News Staff

A new image from NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory suggests the comet ISON has broken up. NASA astronomers say ‘no more nucleus.’ Image...

Nov 28, 2013 by News Staff

A new image of the comet ISON has been captured by researchers using NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Comet ISON streams toward...

Nov 26, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have captured a series of images of the comet ISON. This image...

Nov 19, 2013 by News Staff

U.S. researchers reporting in the journal Nature Geoscience have found strong evidence that the Red Planet has granitic rocks. Distinctive feldspar-rich...

Nov 18, 2013 by News Staff

A new animation by NASA scientists illustrates what Mars – the fourth planet from the Sun and the second smallest planet in the Solar System –...

Nov 8, 2013 by News Staff

A group of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a unique multi-tailed object, labeled P/2013 P5, in the main asteroid belt. P/2013...

Nov 7, 2013 by News Staff

An object that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February 2013 initially measured 20-m across and was about 4,452 million years old, according to three...

Nov 1, 2013 by News Staff

According to a team of researchers led by Dr Silvia Bradamante from Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies in Milan, Italy, microgravity accelerates...

Oct 28, 2013 by News Staff

Using a visual and infrared mapping spectrometer and an imaging science subsystem onboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, scientists have mapped liquid...

Oct 21, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble telescope to capture a new image of comet ISON, the so-called ‘comet of the century.’ This image...

Oct 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists led by Dr Franck Marchis from the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute teamed up with amateur astronomers to discover that the...

Oct 9, 2013 by News Staff

Northern Arizona University scientist Prof Nadine Barlow and Dr Joseph Boyce from the University of Hawaii have discovered a new class of Martian impact...

Oct 8, 2013 by News Staff

A mysterious black pebble found by an Egyptian geologist at the Libyan Desert Glass strewnfield provides the first ever evidence of a comet entering Earth’s...

Oct 3, 2013 by News Staff

Planetary scientists have discovered remnants of giant supervolcanoes in a region in the northern highlands of Mars known as Arabia Terra. The discovery...

Oct 2, 2013 by News Staff

Planetary scientists using the Composite InfRared Spectrometer aboard NASA/ESA’s Cassini spacecraft have detected propylene in the lower atmosphere...

Sep 30, 2013 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience explains how global atmospheric circulation creates a previously undetected layer of ozone above...