Cassini Views Crater Duo on Saturn’s Moon Dione
This newly released Cassini image shows a pair of craters on Saturn’s moon Dione. Cassini captures a crater duo on Saturn’s moon Dione that is…
This newly released Cassini image shows a pair of craters on Saturn’s moon Dione. Cassini captures a crater duo on Saturn’s moon Dione that is…
Scientists have used slight orbital fluctuations to map the gravity field of Mars, providing fresh insights into its crustal thickness, deep interior, and seasonal variations…
New observations of the bright spots on Ceres reveal daily changes on these spots, suggesting that they change under the influence of sunlight as Ceres…
Newly published research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that any Earth-like planet would need a magnetic field in order to protect its atmosphere…
This eight-minute video details Jan Woerner’s plan to build up a permanent base station on the Moon. Jan Woerner, Director General of the European Space…
This new image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows wrinkled plains that are remarkably youthful in appearance on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. When viewed with north pointing…
New Horizons provides scientists with a closer look at eh surface of Pluto. Far in the western hemisphere, scientists on NASA’s New Horizons mission have…
The short video below shows images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s past decade of service at the Red Planet, revealing scientific discoveries and magnificent views…
Project managers have set a target launch date for NASA’s InSight mission to study the deep interior of Mars that begins May 5, 2018, with…
This newly released image from the Cassini Spacecraft shows Saturn’s moons Tethys and Rhea. Similar in many ways, Saturn’s moons Tethys and Rhea (left and…
This new four minute ScienceCasts video details the coming close encounter between Earth and Jupiter. On March 8th, 2016 Earth and Jupiter will have a…
New research suggests that future searches for habitable planets and for the signals from extraterrestrial observers focus on that part of the sky in which…
New observations from NASA’s MAVEN Mission have scientists closer to solving the mystery of how Mars’ moon Phobos formed. In late November and early December…
Newly published research details the varying surface temperatures on Saturn’s moon Titan at two-year intervals, from 2004 to 2016. The measurements were made by the…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has measured the rotation rate of an extreme exoplanet by observing the varied brightness in its…
New images from the New Horizons Spacecraft suggest that Pluto’s moon Charon once had a subsurface ocean that has long since frozen and expanded, pushing…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal that exoplanet 55 Cancri e has a dry atmosphere without any indications of water vapor. For the first…
In this newly released Cassini spacecraft image, Dione appears cut in two by Saturn’s razor-thin rings. This scene was captured from just 0.02 degrees above…