<p></p> <p>NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will sample the ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus on Wednesday, Oct. 28, when it flies through the moon’s plume of icy spray.</p> <p>Cassini launched in 1997 and entered
<p></p> <p>Since its arrival at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has been surveying the surface and the environment of this curiously shaped body. But for a long time,
<p></p> <p>Astronomers tinkering with ice and organics in the lab may have discovered why comets are encased in a hard, outer crust.</p> <p>Using an icebox-like instrument nicknamed Himalaya, the researchers show that
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered water vapour around Ceres, the first unambiguous detection of water vapour around an object in the asteroid belt.</p> <p>With a diameter of 950
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Weather forecasters on exoplanet GJ 1214b would have an easy job. Today’s forecast: cloudy. Tomorrow: overcast. Extended outlook: more clouds.</p> <p>Two teams of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope report
<p style="text-align:center" class="small"></p> <p>NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed water vapor above the frigid south polar region of Jupiter’s moon Europa, providing the first strong evidence of water plumes erupting off
<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>Every summer, something strange and wonderful happens high above the north pole. Ice crystals begin to cling to the smoky remains of meteors, forming electric-blue clouds with tendrils that
<p style="text-align:center" class="small"><br /> These polar maps show the first global, topographic mapping of Saturn’s moon Titan, using data from NASA’s Cassini mission. To create these maps, scientists employed a mathematical
<p style="text-align:center" class="small"></p> <p>NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole.</p> <p>In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane’s