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Hubble Finds a Star Eating a Planet
May 21, 2010 — The hottest known planet in the Milky Way galaxy may also be its shortest-lived world. The doomed planet is being eaten by its parent star, according to observations made by a new instrument on ... > full story -
First Results Study on Impact of Large Celestial Body on Jupiter
May 20, 2010 — Astronomers have researched the impact of a large-sized celestial body on the planet Jupiter last July. According to the studies, the main spot, a very black cloud comprising the waste materials ... > full story -
Engineers Diagnosing Voyager 2 Data System
May 7, 2010 — Engineers have shifted NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft into a mode that transmits only spacecraft health and status data while they diagnose an unexpected change in the pattern of returning data. ... > full story -
Planet-Like Object Found Circling a Brown Dwarf
April 9, 2010 — As our telescopes grow more powerful, astronomers are uncovering objects that defy conventional wisdom. The latest example is the discovery of a planet-like object circling a brown dwarf. It's the ... > full story -
Helium Rain on Jupiter Explains Lack of Neon in Atmosphere
March 22, 2010 — When the Galileo probe descended through Jupiter's atmosphere in 1995, it found neon to be one-tenth as abundant as predicted. This unexpected finding has led researchers to propose an explanation: ... > full story -
Cassini Data Show Ice and Rock Mixture Inside Saturn's Moon Titan
March 11, 2010 — By precisely tracking NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its low swoops over Saturn's moon Titan, scientists have determined the distribution of materials in the moon's interior. The subtle gravitational ... > full story -
Mars Express Phobos Flyby a Success: Unlocking Mystery of 'Second Generation' Moons
March 4, 2010 — Mars Express encountered Phobos March 3, smoothly skimming past at just 67 km, the closest any artificial object has ever approached Mars' enigmatic moon. The data collected could help unlock the ... > full story -
Torn Apart by Its Own Tides, Massive Planet Is on a 'Death March'
February 24, 2010 — Astrophysicists have determined that a massive planet outside our Solar System is being distorted and destroyed by its host star -- a finding that helps explain the unexpectedly large size of the ... > full story -
Jupiter's Moons: Explanation for the Differences Between Ganymede and Callisto
January 24, 2010 — Differences in the number and speed of cometary impacts onto Jupiter's large moons Ganymede and Callisto some 3.8 billion years ago can explain their vastly different surfaces and interior states, ... > full story -
First Earth-Like Planet Spotted Outside Solar System Likely a Volcanic Wasteland
January 6, 2010 — When scientists confirmed in October that they had detected the first rocky planet outside our solar system, it advanced the longtime quest to find an Earth-like planet hospitable to life. The rocky ... > full story
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