Space Exploration News

Sep 21, 2012 by News Staff

NASA’s rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers. Opportunity photographed these small spherical objects on September 6, 2012 using the Microscopic Imager. The view covers an area about 6 cm across on the western rim of Endeavour Crater (NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell University / USGS / Modesto Junior College) Small spherical objects concentrated at an outcrop called Kirkwood on the western rim...

Aug 16, 2012 by News Staff

Researchers using NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have made the first spectroscopic observations of the noble gas helium in the thin atmosphere...

Aug 10, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A planetary geologist from the University of California in Los Angeles has discovered the first strong evidence that the geological phenomenon known as...

Aug 6, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity has successfully landed in the Gale Crater on Mars. The one-ton rover touched down onto the Red Planet early Monday to...

Aug 3, 2012 by News Staff

ESA’s Mars Express has observed the southern part of a 440-km wide crater, informally named Ladon basin. The image shows the interconnected craters Sigli...

Jul 31, 2012 by News Staff

Giant ice avalanches discovered on Saturn’s moon Iapetus provide clue to extreme slippage elsewhere in the Solar System. When the rimwall of Iapetus’s...

Jul 18, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

According to NASA scientists, the unexpected slowing of the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft – the so-called ‘Pioneer Anomaly’ – turns out...

Jul 16, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new study led by Carnegie Institution of Washington has suggested that most of the volatile elements on Earth – which include hydrogen, nitrogen,...

Jul 5, 2012 by News Staff

Scientists using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have found that Saturn’s moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its ice shell. This...

Jun 28, 2012 by News Staff

Researchers have finished counting, outlining and cataloging a staggering 635,000 impact craters on Mars that are roughly a kilometer or more in diameter. Mars:...

Jun 27, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA scientists have announced that Voyager 1 probe is nearing the very edge of the Solar system. Photograph of one of the two identical Voyager space...

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...

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...