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Hubble Catches Jupiter's Largest Moon Going To The 'Dark Side'
December 20, 2008 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught Jupiter's moon Ganymede playing a game of "peek-a-boo." In this crisp Hubble image, Ganymede is shown just before it ducks behind the giant ... > full story -
Jupiter's Moon Europa Does The Wave To Generate Heat
December 12, 2008 — One of the moons in our solar system that scientists think has the potential to harbor life may have a far more dynamic ocean than previously thought. If the moon Europa is tilted on its axis even ... > full story -
Wobbly Planets Could Reveal Earth-Like Moons
December 11, 2008 — Moons outside our Solar System with the potential to support life have just become much easier to detect. Astronomers have found that such moons can be revealed by looking at wobbles in the velocity ... > full story -
Astronomers Use Ultra-Sensitive Camera To Measure Size Of Planet Orbiting Star
December 11, 2008 — A team of astronomers has used a new technique to measure the precise size of a planet around a distant star. They used a camera so sensitive that it could detect the passage of a moth in front of a ... > full story -
Unique Extrasolar Planet Orbits Fast-Rotating Hot Star
December 4, 2008 — Three undergraduate students, from Leiden University in the Netherlands, have discovered an extrasolar planet. The extraordinary find, which turned up during their research project, is about five ... > full story -
Jupiter's Rocky Core Bigger And Icier, According To New Simulation
November 25, 2008 — When Jupiter formed 4.5 billion years ago, rocks and ice combined to form a rocky core 14-18 times the mass of the Earth, according to a new simulation by UC Berkeley geophysicist Burkhard Militzer. ... > full story -
NASA Prepares For New Juno Mission To Jupiter
November 24, 2008 — NASA is officially moving forward on a mission to conduct an unprecedented, in-depth study of Jupiter. Called Juno, the mission will be the first in which a spacecraft is placed in a highly ... > full story -
New Planet Discovered Orbiting Dangerously Close To Giant Star
November 18, 2008 — Astronomers have discovered a new planet that is closely orbiting a red-giant star, HD 102272, which is much older than our own Sun. The planet has a mass that is nearly six times that of Jupiter, ... > full story -
Cassini Finds Mysterious New Aurora On Saturn
November 12, 2008 — Saturn has its own unique brand of aurora that lights up the polar cap, unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system. This odd aurora revealed itself to one of the infrared instruments ... > full story -
Is It A Planet? Exotic Object Orbiting Star Stirs Exoplanet Classification Rethink
October 6, 2008 — The European spacecraft COROT has discovered a massive planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before. It is so exotic, that scientists are unsure as to ... > full story
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