This composite NASA Hubble Space Telescope Image captures the positions of comet Siding Spring and Mars…
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NASA-led Study Sees Titan Glowing at Dusk and Dawn
New maps of Saturn’s moon Titan reveal large patches of trace gases shining brightly just off…
NASA’s Hubble Telescope Finds Potential Kuiper Belt Targets for New Horizons Pluto Mission
Peering out to the dim, outer reaches of our solar system, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has…
NASA Mission Provides Its First Look at Martian Upper Atmosphere
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a…
NASA Mission Finds Widespread Evidence of Young Lunar Volcanism
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has provided researchers strong evidence the moon’s volcanic activity slowed gradually…
NASA Shares What MAVEN Spacecraft Has Seen in its First Few Weeks at Mars
NASA will host a news teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Oct. 14, to announce early…
NASA Mission Points to Origin of “Ocean of Storms” on Earth’s Moon
Using data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), mission scientists have solved a lunar…
NASA’s Newest Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit around Red Planet
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft successfully entered Mars’ orbit at 10:24 p.m. EDT…
NASA Mars Spacecraft Ready for Sept. 21 Orbit Insertion
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft is nearing its scheduled Sept. 21 insertion into…
Hubble Helps Find Smallest Known Galaxy Containing a Supermassive Black Hole
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground observation have found an unlikely object…