Mars Of Today Shaped By Waters Of Yesterday
Data and images from Mars Express suggest that several Light Toned Deposits, some of the least understood features on Mars, were formed when large amounts of groundwater burst on to the surface.
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Greetings from Outer Space — Anyone Seen Bearded Man w/Reindeer?
It's the perfect vantage point — soaring high above the Earth, the crew of the International Space Station has beamed down season's greetings that that began on NASA Television starting Friday, December 12. The public can return the extraterrestrial good will and send greetings to the crew by visiting this site.
Read MoreReporting: Mars Primary Mission Accomplished
Word has come in that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed its primary, two-year science phase. The spacecraft has found signs of a complex Martian history of climate change that produced a diversity of past watery environments.
Read MoreSpitzer Senses Shocked + Stormy Stars
A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of dusty material. This picture provides some of the best examples yet of the ripples of gas, or bow shocks, that can form around stars in choppy cosmic waters.
Read MoreCassini Gets Gap Grabs Of Saturn Moons
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures Saturn's moons Pan (near center) and Daphnis (lower center) as they cruise through the Encke and Keeler gaps in Saturn's rings, respectively.
Read MoreTaking X-Rays Of The Moon
The C1XS instrument, a sophisticated X-ray camera developed by the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) in the U.K. at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and ISRO, is in full working order and is ready to start mapping the composition of the lunar surface after its journey to the moon on board India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.
Read MoreHubble Bubbles With Info of Carbon Dioxide on Planet
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been busy as of late, most recently discovering carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step toward finding chemical biotracers of extraterrestrial life.
Read MoreRISky Business For The ISRO
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to launch a Radar Imaging Satellite (RIS) into orbit by the end of 2009.
Read MoreTitan Scanned During Cassini Flyby
Cassini swoops down to 960 kilometers (597 miles) over Titan's surface, providing the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) with its only dayside pass over the equator during the mission.
Read MoreCatch You On the Red Planet in 2011
If you're already packed, there's been a little delay. NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will launch two years later than previously planned, in the fall of 2011.
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