Jun 14, 2014 by News Staff

Charon – the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto – may once have had a warm subterranean ocean, suggests a team of planetary scientists led...

Jan 9, 2014 by News Staff

An unusual stellar object named ROXs 42Bb may represent a new kind of planets or it may be a very rare planet-mass brown dwarf, according to a group of...

Jul 2, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study reported in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, there may be as many as 60 billion planets in the so-called habitable zone around...

Jun 7, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have captured an image of a so-called ‘dust trap’ – a region where...

Oct 17, 2012 by Natali Anderson

European astronomers using HARPS instrument on the 3.6-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile, have discovered an exoplanet with about the...

Oct 3, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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

Sep 27, 2012 by News Staff

Using a method called reconstructive speckle imaging, a team of astronomers at the Gemini Observatory has captured the sharpest ground-based image ever...

Sep 13, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A research led by Dr Ruth Murray-Clay of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that planets can form in the center of our galaxy. Artist’s...

Aug 20, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of European astrophysicists led by Dr Vardan Adibekyan of the Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, has found that metals like...

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 27, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have detected the first exoplanetary system with regularly aligned orbits similar to those in our Solar System. In this artist interpretation,...

Jul 3, 2012 by News Staff

European scientists have discovered a 100 km-wide crater, the result of a massive asteroid or comet impact a billion years before any other known collision...

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 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...

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 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...

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...