Space Exploration News

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, and carbon – arrived from primitive meteorites, not from comets. A fragment of the Murchison carbonaceous chondrite (United States Department of Energy) Scientists have long believed that comets and, or a type of very primitive meteorite called carbonaceous chondrites were the sources of early...

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...

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...