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.
October 20, 2015 Space weather: Cloudy with a chance of diamond rain Diamonds, the saying goes, are a girl's best friend and Jupiter and Saturn just might be filled to the brim with them, scientists say.
October 20, 2015 Cassini spacecraft photographs Earth from 900 million miles away High above the planet Saturn on Friday, Cassini took photographs of the backlit planet’s rings and a twinkling Earth. If you looked at the skies, chances are you were photographed from space from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, almost a billion miles away.
