NASA launches Europa Clipper mission to investigate namesake Jupiter's moon, a potentially habitable ocean world ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 31 votes
Earth has caught a temporary 'second moon,' scientists say ~space Article 643 words, published Sep 26 2024 20 votes
Scientists find oceans of water on Mars. It's just too deep to tap. ~space Article 949 words 59 votes
The Lunar Crater Database provides the location and dimensions of 1.3 million lunar impact craters ~space Article 1445 words 12 votes
This super-Earth is the first planet confirmed to have a permanent dark side ~space astronomy Article 645 words 29 votes
Doubts grow about the biosignature approach to alien-hunting ~space Article 1301 words, published Mar 19 2024 14 votes
TRAPPIST-1 caught stripping atmosphere of possibly habitable exoplanet ~space astronomy Link 12 votes
Astronomers make rare exoplanet discovery, and a giant leap in detecting Earth-like bodies ~space astronomy Article 946 words 15 votes
Scientists attempt to explain “magic islands” on Saturn’s largest moon ~space Article 386 words 6 votes
NASA mission excels at spotting greenhouse gas emission sources ~enviro Article 814 words, published Nov 17 2023 23 votes
Supervolcano eruption on Pluto hints at hidden ocean beneath the surface ~space Article 623 words 21 votes
We might have accidentally killed any life we collected in samples on Mars nearly fifty years ago ~space Article 1183 words, published Jun 27 2023 43 votes
Appropriate for spooky season. Venus: Welcome to her nightmare ~space Video 57:11, published Dec 3 2020 3 votes
Jet Propulsion Laboratory-led team use Iceland as a stand-in for Venus to test radar technologies that will help uncover the planet's ground truth ~space Article 6 votes
Planet K2-18 b has an ocean and atmosphere that could support life ~space astronomy Article 1056 words 24 votes
German Aerospace Center (DLR), a NASA VERITAS mission partner, is conducting instrument field tests in Iceland ~space Article 485 words 4 votes
While Earth days get longer, NASA finds Mars days are getting shorter ~space Article 494 words 11 votes
Researchers find ancient high-energy impacts could have fueled Venus’s volcanism ~space astronomy Article 774 words 12 votes
Life in the cosmos: JWST hints at lower number of habitable planets ~space astronomy Article 638 words 36 votes
Mercury ahead! - ESA/JAXA's BepiColumbo completed its third flyby of Mercury today ~space Link 10 votes
Key building block for life found at Saturn's moon Enceladus ~space astronomy Article 508 words 9 votes
For a billion years of Earth's history our days were only nineteen hours long, finds new study ~science Article 807 words 26 votes
NASA prepares for historic asteroid sample delivery on Sept. 24, 2023 ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 11 votes
NASA’s Perseverance rover deposits first sample on Mars surface ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 143 words 4 votes
‘My power’s really low’: NASA’s Insight Mars lander prepares to sign off from the Red Planet ~space Article 534 words 5 votes
NASA and ESA agree on next steps to return Mars samples to Earth ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 152 words 6 votes
Resemblance between features on Europa's frozen surface and landform in Greenland provide new indications moon may be capable of harboring life ~space Article 655 words 5 votes
Scientists just found a 'significant' volume of water inside Mars' grand canyon ~space Article 597 words 19 votes
NASA has selected two new missions to study Venus, expected to launch in 2028 - 2030 ~space Article 16 votes
Mars has right ingredients for present-day microbial life beneath its surface, study finds ~space Article 367 words 8 votes
Surprise! First peek inside Mars reveals a crust with cake-like layers ~space Article 592 words 4 votes
NASA considering commercial Mars data relay satellites to provide support for science missions over the next decade ~space spaceflight.commercial satellites Article 888 words 6 votes
Why can we see a yellow band around Earth from space? ~space Video 6:57, published Oct 26 2020 8 votes