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Planet Rings Could Be Behind the Formation of Solar System Satellites
December 4, 2012 — Two researchers have recently proposed the first ever model explaining how the great majority of regular satellites in our solar system were formed out of planet rings. The model, the only one of its ... > full story -
NASA Voyager 1 Encounters New Region in Deep Space
December 3, 2012 — NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the far reaches of our solar system that scientists feel is the final area the spacecraft has to cross before reaching interstellar ... > full story -
Curiosity Shakes, Bakes, and Tastes Mars With SAM
December 3, 2012 — NASA's Curiosity rover analyzed its first solid sample of Mars in November with a variety of instruments, including the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument ... > full story -
Search for Life Suggests Planetary Systems More Habitable Than Ours
December 3, 2012 — Scattered around the Milky Way are stars that resemble our own sun—but a new study is finding that any planets orbiting those stars may very well be hotter and more dynamic than ... > full story -
Complex Chemistry Within the Martian Soil: No Definitive Detection of Organics Yet
December 3, 2012 — NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil. Water and sulfur and ... > full story -
Hubble Spots a Peculiar Compact Blue Dwarf Galaxy
December 3, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured an impressive image of the irregular galaxy NGC 5253. NGC 5253 is one of the nearest of the known Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) galaxies, and is located at a ... > full story -
Swirling Storms on Saturn
December 3, 2012 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been traveling the Saturnian system in a set of inclined, or tilted, orbits that give mission scientists a vertigo-inducing view of Saturn's polar regions. This ... > full story -
Have Venusian Volcanoes Been Caught in the Act?
December 3, 2012 — Six years of observations by the European Space Agency's Venus Express have shown large changes in the sulfur dioxide content of the planet's atmosphere, and one intriguing possible explanation is ... > full story -
Even Brown Dwarfs May Grow Rocky Planets: Sizing Up Grains of Cosmic Dust Around Failed Star
November 30, 2012 — Astronomers have for the first time found that the outer region of a dusty disc encircling a brown dwarf contains millimeter-sized solid grains like those found in denser discs around newborn stars. ... > full story -
New View of the Sun: Radio Telescope Could Save World Billions Through Advanced Warnings
November 30, 2012 — A small pocket of Western Australia’s remote outback is set to become the eye on the sky and could potentially save the world billions of dollars. The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio ... > full story
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