Analysis of data from the end of NASA's Dawn mission confirms that the dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world with a deep reservoir of salt-enriched water ~space Article 13 votes
Italian amateur astronomer captures amazing photo of Mercury’s comet-like sodium tail ~space astronomy Article 494 words 7 votes
Could solar storms destroy civilization? Solar flares and coronal mass ejections. ~space Video 9:43 7 votes
Freaky ‘active’ object in Jupiter’s orbit is first of its kind seen by astronomers ~space astronomy Article 592 words 4 votes
“Overstressed” NASA Mars exploration budget threatens missions ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 1088 words 5 votes
Planetary science decadal survey to include astrobiology and planetary defense ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 582 words 3 votes
A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to data from the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission ~space Article 9 votes
Diving and driving on icy moons: One strategy for exploring Enceladus and Europa ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 1189 words 3 votes
The self-hammering probe on NASA’s Mars lander can’t seem to actually dig into the ground ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 577 words 10 votes
Tunnelling mole instrument on Mars InSight lander resumes movement into Martian surface ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 453 words 7 votes
What astronomers can learn from hot Jupiters, the scorching giant planets of the galaxy ~space astronomy Article 2214 words 4 votes
Twenty new moons found orbiting Saturn, making it the planet with the most known moons ~space Article 1063 words 10 votes
Hubble reveals latest portrait of Saturn ~space astronomy Article 509 words, published Sep 12 2019 7 votes
What has NASA's Juno discovered around Jupiter so far? (three year update) ~space spaceflight.scientific Video 15:40 5 votes
India's Chandrayaan-2 mission ready for historic landing on the Moon ~space Article 1196 words 10 votes
NASA's Dragonfly spacecraft, resembling a large quadcopter drone, will fly through the orange clouds of Titan searching for signs of life ~space rocketry Article 2538 words 8 votes
Science and sustainability may clash on the Moon: Balancing the mining of lunar ice between colonization and astrobiological research ~space Article 1505 words 4 votes
NASA chooses Saturn’s moon Titan as its next destination as part of Project DragonFly—a drone mission to explore Titan's surface over two years ~space Article 410 words 28 votes
NASA rover on Mars detects high amounts of methane gas, hinting at possibility of life ~space Article 820 words 8 votes
NASA will conduct a delicate rescue mission to free a probe trapped just inches below the Red Planet’s surface ~space rocketry Article 555 words 6 votes
Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter’s position from the area under a time-velocity graph ~space astronomy Link 7 votes
Will we find extraterrestrial life on ice worlds? Why Europa is the place to go for alien life. ~space astronomy Article 2429 words 4 votes
Something on Mars is producing gas usually made by living things on Earth ~space Article 684 words 9 votes
Engineers still studying problem with InSight heat flow probe ~space rocketry spaceflight Article 529 words 6 votes
Breathtaking new NASA images show Jupiter’s otherworldy storms ~space astronomy Article 286 words 5 votes
Meet Hippocamp! Neptune's smallest moon has a name (and a violent past) ~space astronomy Article 948 words 11 votes
Mars: NASA lands InSight robot to study planet's interior ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 657 words 25 votes
NASA is landing on Mars for the first time since 2012. You can watch live (Monday, November 26th at 19:40 UTC) ~space Article 755 words 15 votes
Moons around 'rogue planets' could sustain life — no solar system required ~space astronomy Article 784 words, published Oct 10 2018 15 votes
The woman who reinvented the moon: A MacArthur “genius grant” winner writes a new lunar origin story ~space astronomy Article 2481 words 5 votes
Astronomers have found an exoplanet around the same star that Vulcan orbits in Star Trek canon ~space astronomy Article 12 votes
TESS is doing better than expected in hunt for exoplanets ~space astronomy Article 630 words 13 votes
Bizarre “rogue planet” found lurking in Earth’s galactic neighborhood ~space astronomy Article 668 words 9 votes
Jupiter’s got twelve new moons — one is a bit of a problem child ~space astronomy Article 645 words 8 votes