New Evidence of Dry Lake Beds on Mars
[/caption] Networks of giant polygonal troughs found in crater basins on Mars are cracks caused by evaporating lakes. These landforms…
Titan’s Haze Acts as Ozone Layer
[/caption] Titan appears to be more like Earth all the time, and a new understanding of Titan's hazy atmosphere could…
Super Cell Lightning Storm Raging on Saturn Since January
[/caption] The Cassini spacecraft has been in orbit around Saturn since 2004 and during its mission, has watched nine different…
Hubble’s Law
[/caption] "The distance to objects beyond the Local Group is closely related to how fast they seem to be receding…
Carnival of Space #120
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Bruce Irving over at Music of the Spheres Click here to read…
Armadillo Powers Toward $1 Million Prize
A rocket powered vehicle successfully completed the first step toward qualifying to win a $1 million prize for NASA's Northrop…
Interactive 360-Degree Panorama of Entire Night Sky Now Available
[/caption] A stunning new 800-million-pixel panorama of the entire sky has been released online for everyone to enjoy. GigaGalaxy Zoom…
Jupiter Captured Comet as Temporary Moon
[/caption] Jupiter's gravity well has been known to capture objects – evidenced by the recent impact on the gas giant…
Temporary Radiation Belt Discovered at Saturn
[/caption] A new, temporary radiation belt has been detected at Saturn, located about 377,000 km from the center of the…
Craters on Vesta and Ceres Could Show Jupiter’s Age
[/caption] Scientists use crater distributions to tell the ages of planetary surfaces on rocky bodies. But how can the ages…