Spelunking Rover May Explore Mysterious Lunar Caverns
William Whittaker has been developing roving robots for years. By 2015, he hopes that his rover will explore some mysterious caves on the Moon. Three…
William Whittaker has been developing roving robots for years. By 2015, he hopes that his rover will explore some mysterious caves on the Moon. Three…
One of the widest accepted models for the Moon’s formation states that a renegade, Mars-sized planet, named Theia, slammed into Earth 4.5 billion years ago,…
Saturn’s odd mix of mid-sized satellites are among the strangest in the outer Solar System. With widely varying densities and locations, measuring between 300 to…
There might be more ice on the Moon than was previously thought. There are permanent shadows far from the lunar poles, which has expanded the…
The Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager captured an image of the second full moon of the month – known as a ‘Blue’ Moon. Europe’s…
Using the Mini-RF radar on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a team of scientists have estimated that as much as five to ten percent of material,…
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers discovered a fifth moon, designated P5, orbiting Pluto that is irregular in shape and 6 to 15 miles across….
At roughly three minutes long, this animated video walks you through the evolution of the moon from its first formation 4.5 billion years ago, to…
Take a few minutes to enjoy this image of the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created and two of NASA’s most…
Scientists estimated that several large impact events on Mars could have launched significant amounts of Martian material into space, leading them to believe that if…
Using a laser altimeter on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, a team of scientists has mapped Shackleton crater with unprecedented detail, finding possible evidence for…
By examining data from NASA’s Voyager and Galileo missions and incorporating infrared data obtained from telescopes on Earth, astronomers discovered that the heat pouring out…
NASA’s GRAIL Mission, with twin probes named Ebb and Flow, has delivered over 99.99 percent of the data that was collected on the moon and…
In an effort to test the technique of using the moon as a mirror, scientists will use Hubble to observe the transit of Venus across…
More than 60 moons orbit Saturn and by combining data from NASA’s Cassini mission with modeling techniques, scientists have so far been able to identify…
Two new papers published in the Astrophysical Journal describe the process of hydrocarbon creation on Saturn’s moon Titan and predicted how long Titan’s chemical factory…
Based on data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, a newly published research paper suggests that Lake Ontario Lacus on Saturn’s moon Titan is very similar to…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured surface temperature measurements with its composite infrared spectrometer and several images as it completed its flyby of Saturn’s moons Enceladus and…