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.
October 20, 2015 Tiny, 12-mile-wide moon found circling Neptune by Hubble telescope In the inky black of space, at the farthest reaches of the solar system, a tiny white blemish lies near the greenish-blue surface of Neptune: a new moon.
October 20, 2015 Search for Northern Lights on Saturn takes off Astronomers using an observatory in Hawaii kicked off a month-long campaign to study the northern lights on Saturn study Sunday (April 21) in a live webcast from Hawaii's iconic Keck Observatory.
October 20, 2015 Saturn's rings are 4 billion years old The dazzling rings of Saturn and its moons are likely more than 4 billion years old — the cosmic remnants of the solar system's birth, scientists say.
October 20, 2015 Why Voyager 1's solar system exit is so hard to predict NASA's Voyager 1 probe is tantalizingly close to the edge of the solar system, but predicting when it will finally pop free into interstellar space is a challenging proposition, mission team members say.
October 20, 2015 Total solar eclipse Tues: Watch it live online The total solar eclipse on Tues,, Nov. 13, may only be visible from slivers of northern Australia and a swathe of open ocean, but you don't have to make an epic journey see it.
October 16, 2015 New maps of Jupiter offer plenty of surprises Among other things, the maps have revealed a rare wave just north of the planet's equator
October 15, 2015 NASA releases striking new images of Saturn's moon Enceladus NASA has released striking new images from the Cassini spacecraft’s flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
October 14, 2015 Cassini gets close encounter with Saturn's moon Enceladus Scientists will be hunting for any signs of ancient geological activity similar to the geyser-spouting, tiger-stripe fractures in the moon's south polar region.
