Cassini Sees Saturn’s Southern Pole Heading Into Twilight
Seasonal twilight is approaching for Saturn's south polar vortex — the giant hurricane-like storm swirling around the planet's southern pole.
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NASA’s Mars Odyssey Shifts and Re-ups for Extended Mission
It's served the longest of six other spacecraft and now as a reward, NASA's Mars Odyssey will alter its orbit and continue on for a third two-year extension of its mission to examine the most Earthlike of known foreign planets. Odyssey originally reached Mars in 2001.
Read MoreVenus Express Looks for Black Specks of Other Universes
In the process of circling Earth, Venus Express' task is to observe whether Earth is habitable, which is no joke, but rather an exercise. Venus Express is paving the way for an exciting new era in astronomy having taken its first image of Earth with its Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) soon after its launch in November 2005.
Read MoreColorful Starry Region Captured By Spacecraft + Telescope
Different wavelengths of light swirl together like watercolors in a new, ethereal portrait of a bright, active star-forming region.
Read MoreCassini Going All Out For Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will fly by Saturn's geyser moon, Enceladus. The October 9th flyby is the closest flyby yet of any moon of Saturn, at only 25 kilometers (16 miles) from the surface. The October 31 flyby is farther out, at 196 kilometers (122 miles).
Read MoreExotic Find In Space Made By COROT
COROT is a mission led by the French Space Agency (CNES), with contributions from ESA, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Spain and Brazil. The craft has discovered a massive, planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before.
Read MoreMercury Fully Revealed By MESSENGER
MESSENGER is the first mission sent to orbit the planet closest to the sun. On October 6, 2008, at roughly 4:40 a.m. ET, MESSENGER flew by Mercury for the second time this year.
Read MoreMt. Lemon Telescope Picks Up Approaching Space Rock
The Mount Lemon telescope first observed a small space rock early on Monday... the noticed item is actually an asteroid measuring several feet in diameter and the traveler was expected to enter the Earth's atmosphere over northern Sudan just before dawn tomorrow at 5:45 a.m. local time (10:46 p.m. EDT Monday).
Read MoreInterstellar Boundary To Be Breached By NASA’s IBEX
The first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space is ready for launch on October 19th.
Read MoreThe Difference Between Planets and Brown Dwarfs
News from The European Space Agency now has all involved rethinking the classification of a discovery by COROT as to whether the find is an exoplanet or brown dwarf. A brown dwarf is a ‘failed star’, a sub-stellar object that is not undergoing nuclear fusion at its core, but displays some stellar characteristics.
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