<p style="text-align: center"></p> <p>NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed to scientists slender dark markings — possibly due to salty water – that advance seasonally down slopes surprisingly close to the Martian
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Observations indicate that the sudden exposure to strong sunlight when the currently dark side of the comet gets closer to the Sun could trigger huge outbursts.</p> <p>Scientists are unraveling more
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Comets and other icy celestial bodies have some basic building blocks for life, but it takes violent impacts to take them to the next level, according to researchers who
<p style="text-align: center"></p> <p>A monster storm that erupted on Saturn in late 2010 – as large as any storm ever observed on the ringed planet — has already impressed researchers with
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Around the world, astronomers are buzzing with anticipation over the approach of Comet ISON. On Thanksgiving Day 2013, the icy visitor from the outer solar system will skim
<p>NASA research indicates hunks of frozen carbon dioxide – dry ice – may glide down some Martian sand dunes on cushions of gas similar to miniature hovercraft, plowing furrows as
<p style="text-align: center;"><br /> <em>The Cassini spacecraft looks down, almost directly at the north pole of Dione. The feature just left of the terminator at bottom is Janiculum Dorsa, a long,
<p>A new paper led by a NASA researcher shows that hydrogen peroxide is abundant across much of the surface of <a href="http://jupsatpro.nightskyobserver.com" target="_blank">Jupiter</a>‘s moon Europa. The authors argue that if
<p>Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have revealed Saturn’s moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its ice shell.</p> <p>Researchers saw a large amount of squeezing and stretching as
<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