<p></p> <p>NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will zip past Saturn’s moon Dione on Monday, Aug. 17 — the final close flyby of this icy satellite during the spacecraft’s long mission.</p> <p>Cassini’s closest approach, within
<p></p> <p>What’s icy, has “wobbly” potato-shaped moons, and is the world’s best-known dwarf planet? The answer is Pluto, and NASA’s New Horizons is speeding towards the edge of our solar system
<p></p> <p>The rugged landscape of Saturn’s fracture-faced moon Dione is revealed in images sent back by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft from its latest flyby. Cassini buzzed past Dione on June 16, coming
<p><a href="http://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2015/06/lakes_and_seas_on_titan/15456024-1-eng-GB/Lakes_and_seas_on_Titan.jpg" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>Saturn’s moon Titan is home to seas and lakes filled with liquid hydrocarbons, but what makes the depressions they lie in? A new study suggests that the moon’s
<p> </p> <p>Jupiter’s moon Europa is brimming with water. Although it is thought to be mostly made up of rocky material, the moon is wrapped in a thick layer of water
<p></p> <p>New research using data from NASA’s Cassini mission suggests most of the eruptions from Saturn’s moon Enceladus might be diffuse curtains rather than discrete jets. Many features that appear to
<p></p> <p>NASA’s Dawn mission will host the flagship event for its “I C Ceres” space festival at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena on <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_982791284"><span class="aQJ">Saturday, May
<p></p> <p>As today’s partial solar eclipse crossed Europe, it was also visible from space. ESA’s Proba-2 captured a near-total eclipse from orbit, at the same time as its sister minisatellite Proba-V
AAVSO Alert Notice 511<br /> Monitoring requested for developing planetary systems dust production study<br /> March 14, 2015 <p>Dr. George Rieke (University of Arizona) and colleagues have requested AAVSO assistance in monitoring four
<p></p> <p>Firing off a string of snapshots like a sports photographer at a NASCAR race, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a rare look at three of Jupiter’s largest moons parading across