Planets - Page 77

November 11, 2015

Mars' moon Phobos could be headed for destruction

NASA is predicting that the groove marks spotted on Phobos could be a sign that it will eventually be pulled apart - in tens of millions of years.

November 10, 2015

Pluto may be home to ice volcanoes, NASA says

Pluto may be home to ice volcanoes, according to NASA, which has released a wealth of information from its flyby of the dwarf planet earlier this year.

November 6, 2015

Space bully: Jupiter may have kicked giant planet out of its orbit

It seems that some planets just can’t play nicely together. Scientists at the University of Toronto have discovered that Jupiter may have ejected another planet from the Solar System 4 billion years ago.

November 4, 2015

Flexible 'tentacle robots' could aid planetary exploration

Space robots are about to get a whole lot sleeker and slinkier.

October 30, 2015

The icy world of Saturn's moon Enceladus comes into view

NASA has released the latest images of Saturn’s moon Enceladus taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its close flyby Wednesday, which suggest that this is one cold place.

October 28, 2015

NASA's Cassini spacecraft to make flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is expected to make a flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus Wednesday, passing through the moon’s plume of icy spray in a search for signs of life in its oceans.

October 23, 2015

NASA gets shot of Pluto's smallest moon

Pluto’s family portrait is complete after NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft snapped shots of its smallest moon Kerberos.

October 21, 2015

NASA's Kepler spacecraft finds first alien planet of new mission

NASA's Kepler space telescope is discovering alien planets again.

October 21, 2015

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft wakes up for Pluto encounter in 2015

Pluto, get ready for your close-up: A NASA spacecraft has roused itself from the final slumber of its nine-year trek to the edge of the solar system, setting the stage for the first close encounter with Pluto next year.

October 21, 2015

'Venus Zone' could aid search for Earth-like alien worlds

Exoplanet hunters have just made it easier to identify alien Venuses, in the hopes that doing so will lead to the discovery of more alien Earths.