July 8, 2016 Newly discovered planet has triple sunrises, sunsets Imagine a planet with triple sunrises and sunsets every day for part of the year, and nonstop daylight at other times.
July 5, 2016 NASA's Juno spacecraft enters Jupiter's orbit A NASA spacecraft is zooming toward Jupiter for the closest encounter with the biggest planet in our solar system.
July 1, 2016 Juno set to arrive at Jupiter on Fourth of July, a patriotic coincidence Juno blasted off nearly five years ago, in August of 2011. And when it arrives at Jupiter on July 4th, it will be traveling insanely fast.
June 30, 2016 Surface of Mercury was formed deep inside planet, scientists say Parts of Mercury’s varied surface came from melted material over 200 miles deep inside the planet at the core-mantle boundary, NASA scientists found.
June 27, 2016 'Super grand canyon' discovered near Pluto On the dwarf planet’s moon Charon, enormous cliff faces lurk on a satellite that’s just 753 miles in diameter.
June 23, 2016 On blue Neptune, Hubble sees a dark vortex The Hubble Space Telescope has spied a dark vortex on the planet Neptune, a spot in the ice giant’s atmosphere the size of the continental United States.
June 21, 2016 'Electric wind' sucked water away from Venus, scientists say We already know there isn’t any water on Venus anymore, but scientists working with ESA’s (European Space Agency) Venus Express mission by NASA-funded researchers think they may have solved the mystery of how the planet’s oceans ultimately disappeared: they were sucked away by a powerful electric wind.
June 17, 2016 Surprise! Newfound asteroid is 'quasi-moon' of Earth It seems the moon is not Earth's only cosmic companion.
June 14, 2016 Scientists find rare 'Tatooine' double-star planet Named Kepler-1647 b, the newly-discovered planet is located 3,700 light years from Earth, and thought to be similar in age to our planet, around 4.4 billion years old.
June 13, 2016 On July 4, the Juno spacecraft will finally reach Jupiter NASA’s Juno spacecraft will enter into orbit around Jupiter on the Fourth of July, completing a journey of over 1.7 billion miles that began on August 5, 2011.
