Space Exploration News

Jun 26, 2012 by News Staff

Scientists, using images collected over several years by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, have discovered that the heat from within Saturn powers turbulent jet streams, regions on the planet where winds blow faster than in other places. A particularly strong jet stream churns through Saturn's northern hemisphere in this false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI) These jet streams churn east and west across Saturn....

Jun 25, 2012 by News Staff

A new research by ESA scientists is giving credibility to theories that life came from outer space – as well as helping to create better suncreams. An...

Jun 22, 2012 by News Staff

Ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in Shackleton crater at the Moon’s south pole, recent data from NASA’s Lunar...

Jun 12, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has discovered alien-looking nanoparticles inside bubbles of glass in lunar soil. TXM tomography reconstruction anaglyph...

May 31, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A new study by European scientists has suggested that intense ultraviolet radiation on Mars releases methane from organic materials which meteorites transport...

May 30, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An American-Canadian team of scientists has discovered a rare landscape that appears to be very similar to one of Jupiter’s icy moons, Europa. Europa,...

May 25, 2012 by News Staff

Researchers have found strong evidence that carbon in Martian meteorites, including in the famous Allan Hills 84001, is indigenous – and not contamination...

May 24, 2012 by News Staff

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has taken a memorable view of a large Martian crater. Late afternoon shadows at Endeavour Crater on Mars,...

May 23, 2012 by News Staff

North Carolina State University researchers have developed a model of a wind-driven tumbleweed Mars rover capable of moving across rocky Martian terrain. Model...

May 4, 2012 by James Freeman

A team of US researchers has found new evidence that early Mars was saturated with water and that its atmosphere was considerably thicker, at least 20...

May 4, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity has announced that the rover found what appeared to be veins...

May 1, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Australian researchers have suggested that finding rocky, Earth-like exoplanets that can sustain life will be crucial for us as a species. An artist’s...

Apr 27, 2012 by News Staff

Arizona State University graduate student Andrew Ryan has discovered a new form of Martian lava flow that resembles snail or nautilus shells. More than...

Apr 25, 2012 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the Queen Mary University of London working with images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has found few big objects punching through...

Apr 20, 2012 by News Staff

A team of researchers analyzing new data from NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft has found that a region on Titan called Ontario Lacus is very similar to the...

Apr 17, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has suggested that asteroid impact craters may be the best place to look for signs of life on Mars and other planets. Hellas...

Apr 11, 2012 by News Staff

ESA’s Mars Express has returned some remarkable new imagery of Tractus Catena area, revealing a series of pit-chains on the flanks of Alba Mons, one...

Mar 30, 2012 by News Staff

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has returned new images of Saturn’s moons Enceladus, Janus and Dione. The Cassini spacecraft took this raw image...

Mar 23, 2012 by James Freeman

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has returned new images of the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta, highlighting unusual geologic features, some of which...

Mar 22, 2012 by James Freeman

On March 17, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft completed its primary mission, orbiting Mercury, capturing nearly 100,000 images, and recording data that shed...