Space Exploration News

Six years of observations of the second planet from the Sun by ESA’s Venus Express show that changes in the planet’s atmosphere could be the result...

New data obtained with NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft have provided evidence that water ice and deposits of organic material exist near the north pole...

A team of researchers from three U.S. universities has suggested that the most likely source of the water locked inside lunar soils is the constant stream...

Scientists, using data from a high-resolution spectrometer aboard ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft, have discovered a surprisingly cold layer high in Venusian...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured images of bedrock that suggest a fast-moving stream once flowed on the Martian surface. “From the size of...

NASA’s rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers. Opportunity photographed these small spherical...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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:...

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...

Scientists, using images collected over several years by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, have discovered that the heat from within Saturn powers turbulent...

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...

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...