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Just over three weeks since its Oct. 19 launch, NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft — the first mission designed to image the interaction at the edge of the solar system — concluded its orbit-raising phase and is beginning instrument commissioning in preparation to start science observations.
Read MoreSaturn has its own unique brand of aurora that lights up the polar cap, unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system.
Read MoreIndia's maiden unmanned lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 has reached its final orbital home, about 100 kms over the moon surface.
Read MoreNot necessarily what you might think when you imagine stars, and the creation of planets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Shock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets; the evidence comes in the form of tiny crystals.
Read MoreHere it comes, Mimas emerges from behind hazy Saturn, and you see that the rings appear distorted near the planet as their image passes through the upper atmosphere. The limb of Mimas (396 kilometers, or 246 miles across) is slightly flattened on the left side by the rim of the large crater Herschel.
Read MoreThe Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) satellite completed its design, development, manufacturing and testing process at Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB] and is enroute to the final launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), California.
Read MoreNASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ceased communications after operating for more than five months. As anticipated, seasonal decline in sunshine at the robot's arctic landing site is not providing enough sunlight for the solar arrays to collect the power necessary to charge batteries that operate the lander's instruments.
Read MoreThe European Space Agency (ESA) has reported that the crew selection for a simulated Mars mission moved a step closer to completion recently as the last eight candidates are being put through extensive medical screening in Moscow.
Read MoreWhen first viewed in the movie sequence, Cassini images reveal the moon Prometheus as it slowly collides with the diffuse inner edge of Saturn's F ring and reminds this viewer of the Silver Surfer cresting on a big wave, only this one is literally out of this world.
Read MoreNovember is a most exciting month for activity in space — Midnight Fireballs are visible late at night as Earth is passing through a swarm of gritty debris from comet 2P/Encke causing a slow flurry of Taurid fireballs.
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