October 20, 2015 Private Mars colony project wants help choosing 2018 lander experiments You can help choose one of the science payloads that a Mars colonization effort will launch toward the Red Planet in 2018.
October 20, 2015 Color of Jupiter's great red spot comes from epic sunburn The Great Red Spot on Jupiter's face is secretly dull in color.
October 20, 2015 Alien life could thrive on 'supercritical' CO2 instead of water Alien life might flourish on an exotic kind of carbon dioxide, researchers say.
October 20, 2015 Bizarre shape of Uranus' 'Frankenstein' moon explained The strange appearance of Uranus' moon Miranda may finally have an explanation.
October 20, 2015 Saturn may have given birth to a baby moon, astronomers say NASA’s Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft has imaged something peculiar on the outermost edge of the gas giant’s A-ring. A bright knot, or arc, has been spotted, 20 percent brighter than the surrounding ring material and astronomers are interpreting it as a gravitational disturbance caused by a tiny moon.
October 20, 2015 Mars makes closest approach to Earth in 6 years monday ahead of lunar cclipse A huge night for stargazers is nearly here: On Monday evening, Mars will make its closest approach to Earth in six years, just ahead of a total eclipse of the moon.
October 20, 2015 Mercury is shrinking, NASA photos reveal The scorched first rock from the sun has contracted into itself even more than previously thought -- losing more than 4 miles of elevation in some parts, according to new research using data from NASA's Messenger spacecraft.
October 20, 2015 NASA planning to send robotic mission to Europa, Jupiter's watery moon that may harbor life NASA is plotting a daring robotic mission to Jupiter's watery moon Europa, a place where astronomers speculate there might be life.
October 20, 2015 Pale blue dot: Amazing NASA photo shows Earth from Mars From the surface of the Red Planet, NASA's rover took time off from its mission to gaze back at our planet, capturing a twinkling Earth spinning slowly in the sky.
October 20, 2015 Ask a science teacher: What is a black hole? A black hole is a place in Washington, DC, where all our tax dollars go. Just kidding! A black hole is perhaps the strangest object in the universe. It is the remains of a massive dead star that has run out of fuel and collapsed.
