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October 21, 2015

Watch the Moon, Mars and star form a celestial triangle Wednesday night

If your weather is clear late Wednesday, take a look at the sky toward the east-southeast horizon to spot a "celestrial triangle" formed by the moon, a bright star and an even brighter planet: Mars.

October 21, 2015

Hubble finds hints of water on 5 alien planets

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected water in the atmospheres of five planets beyond our solar system, two recent studies reveal.

October 21, 2015

Amazing new picture of Saturn

NASA on Tuesday released a a natural-color image of Saturn from space, the first in which Saturn, its moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible. 

October 21, 2015

First ever topographic map of Saturn moon Titan

Peering through Titan's thick orange clouds may not be the easiest of tasks, but a team of planetary scientists using NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have done it, and created the first full topographical map of its surface.

October 21, 2015

Scientists study violent winds of Uranus, Neptune

Screaming winds of infernal violence alternate with periods of dead calm as one nears the surface of Uranus, according to a new analysis of the gas giant.

October 21, 2015

Voyager 1 escapes sun, enters new region of space

After cruising the “magnetic highway” that rings the very outskirts of the solar system, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new and unexplored region of space, although it had yet to exit the solar system, NASA indicated. 

October 21, 2015

Vulcan, Spock's homeworld, to be pinpointed around Pluto

The votes are in, and it looks like 'Vulcan' could be the new name for one of Pluto's smallest moons.

October 21, 2015

The next Earth? 7 possibly habitable worlds identified

A new catalog aims to list all the known planets in the galaxy that could potentially be habitable to life.

October 21, 2015

Moon's mysterious 'ocean of storms' explained

The largest dark spot on the moon, known as the Ocean of Storms, may be a scar from a giant cosmic impact that created a magma sea more than a thousand miles wide and several hundred miles deep, researchers say.

October 21, 2015

Surviving solar storms: Could the 'Scorch Trials' world become real?

Some researchers are warning not all states in the U.S. will be ready for the threat of solar storms. Will your state survive a mega-blast from the sun?