September 20, 2018 NASA's new planet hunter just found its 1st alien world — an evaporating 'Super-Earth' NASA's newest planet-hunting mission has reported detecting its first alien world — a "super-Earth" that is likely evaporating under the heat from its star, a new study finds.
September 19, 2018 Massive ice volcanoes once covered dwarf planet Ceres eons ago A new study shows that dozens of ice volcanoes used to litter the surface of the dwarf planet, Ceres billions of years ago.
September 17, 2018 Cassini's last view of Saturn moon shows fabulous methane lakes Just four days before the Cassini spacecraft's dramatic dive into Saturn's atmosphere last year, cameras aboard the spacecraft captured the mission's last image of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
September 16, 2018 Is Pluto a planet? The answer is about a lot more than the downgraded 'runt' of the solar system Since 1930, we’ve discovered that Pluto is one of the solar system’s most fascinating worlds. It features blue skies, red snow, glaciers made of frozen nitrogen, and dunes made of frozen methane grains. And circling it all are no fewer than five moons!
September 13, 2018 Closest exoplanet to Earth could be 'highly habitable' Just a cosmic hop, skip and jump away, an Earth-size planet orbits the closest star to our sun, Proxima Centauri.
September 10, 2018 Pluto should be a planet again, researchers argue Pluto should be reclassified as a planet, according to a new research study.
September 7, 2018 Alien life could exist on worlds overflowing with water, new research suggests Even on alien worlds covered by water, a new study shows that there's a chance for life to survive for a long time — despite previous research showing that's unlikely.
September 6, 2018 Exoplanet 'twice the size of Earth' discovered 145 light-years away An exoplanet twice the size of Earth, known as Wolf 503b, has been found just 145 light-years away from our home planet.
September 6, 2018 To find alien life, NASA needs bigger, bolder exoplanet-hunting telescopes A congressionally mandated report published today (Sept. 5) by the premier science advisory group in the United States has found that NASA should focus its exoplanet research budget on large space- and ground-based telescopes.
September 5, 2018 Saturn has another weird hexagon, puzzling scientists A bizarre, hexagon-shaped vortex has formed above Saturn's north pole as the planet's northern hemisphere enters summer, data from the international Cassini-Huygens mission revealed. The unusual vortex is circulating hundreds of kilometers above the clouds in the stratosphere layer of the ringed planet's atmosphere, a new study reported.
