<p>Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus hangs below the gas giant’s rings while Titan lurks in the background, in this new image taken by the Cassini spacecraft.</p> <p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Faint detail of the tiger
<p>A crescent Enceladus appears with Saturn’s rings in this Cassini spacecraft view of the moon.</p> <p style="text-align:center" class=small></p> <p>The famed jets of water ice emanating from the south polar region of the
<p>No team of reindeer, but radio signals flying clear across the solar system from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have delivered a holiday package of glorious images. The pictures, from
<p>NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the
<p>ESA’s Herschel space observatory has shown that water expelled from the moon Enceladus forms a giant torus of water vapour around Saturn. The discovery solves a 14-year mystery by identifying
<p></p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="290" align="left"> <tr> <td align="center"> <p class="small"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMSTK58BOG_index_1.html"></a><br /> Artist’s impression of the Rosetta orbiter and lander</p></td> <td></td> </tr> </table> <p>On 8 June, mission controllers had the first opportunity to switch
<p>Asteroid Lutetia has been revealed as a battered world of many craters. ESA’s Rosetta mission has returned the first close-up images of the asteroid showing it is most probably a
<p>NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images since reaching lunar orbit June 23. The spacecraft has two cameras — a low resolution Wide Angle Camera and