Planetary science
- WSU researchers build alien ocean to test NASA outer space submarine (18 Aug 2018)
- NASA's Webb Telescope will study our solar system's 'ocean worlds' (18 Aug 2018)
- ESA's next science mission to focus on nature of exoplanets (16 Aug 2018)
- Earth’s first missions to a binary asteroid, for planetary defence (16 Aug 2018)
- Earth’s atmosphere: new results from the International Space Station (16 Aug 2018)
- Mars terraforming not possible using present-day technology (01 Aug 2018)
- 'Ribbon' wraps up mystery of Jupiter's magnetic equator (28 Jul 2018)
- Mars Express detects liquid water hidden under planet’s south pole (28 Jul 2018)
- The toxic side of the Moon (04 Jul 2018)
- 'Cataclysmic' collision shaped Uranus' evolution (03 Jul 2018)
- BepiColombo launch to Mercury (02 Jul 2018)
- TESS readies for takeoff (01 Jul 2018)
- Swarm tracks elusive ocean magnetism (01 Jul 2018)
- Old data, new tricks: Fresh results from NASA's Galileo spacecraft 20 years on (01 Jul 2018)
- NASA's Juno mission provides infrared tour of Jupiter's north pole (01 Jul 2018)
- Earth's magnetosphere (01 Jul 2018)
- Mars valleys traced back to precipitation (29 Jun 2018)
- Sterilising an antenna for Mars (28 Jun 2018)
- NASA's flying observatory SOFIA to explore magnetic universe and beyond (21 Jun 2018)
- Why doesn't Venus have a magnetosphere? (10 Jun 2018)
- Voyager 1 Just Fired Its Thrusters for the First Time in 37 Years (10 Jun 2018)
- Supercomputer simulates dynamic magnetic fields of Jupiter, Earth, Sun (10 Jun 2018)
- Minerology on Mars points to a cold and icy ancient climate (09 Jun 2018)
- New insight into Earth's crust, mantle and outer core interactions (07 Jun 2018)
- From horizon to horizon: Celebrating 15 years of Mars Express (02 Jun 2018)
- China Is Sending Plants and Insects to the Moon in 2018 (19 Apr 2018)
- Dawn spacecraft explores dwarf planet Ceres' interior evolution (19 Nov 2017)
- Saturn's radiation belts: A stranger to the solar wind (01 Nov 2017)
- Moment of impact: A journey into the Chicxulub Crater (24 Oct 2017)
- NASA's MAVEN mission finds Mars has a twisted magnetic tail (20 Oct 2017)
- Webcam on Mars Express surveys high-altitude clouds (17 Oct 2017)
- Rosetta’s ever-changing view of a comet (12 Oct 2017)
- 'Nightmare' geometry of Uranus creates tumbling magnetosphere – Physics World (08 Oct 2017)
- New gravity map suggests Mars has a porous crust (08 Oct 2017)
- NASA proposes a magnetic shield to protect Mars' atmosphere (08 Oct 2017)
- Jupiter: Atmosphere and aurora in unprecedented detail (08 Oct 2017)
- How strong is the gravity on Mars? (08 Oct 2017)
- Geophysicists develop high-res map of Earth's magnetic field (08 Oct 2017)
- Extreme Jupiter weather and magnetic fields: Astronomers publish predictions of planetary phenomena on Jupiter that informed spacecraft's arrival (08 Oct 2017)
- ESA's Jupiter mission moves off the drawing board (08 Oct 2017)
- Curiosity captures gravity wave shaped clouds on Mars (08 Oct 2017)
- NASA's THEMIS sees Auroras move to the rhythm of Earth's magnetic field (07 Oct 2017)
- What's inside Ceres? New findings from gravity data (06 Oct 2017)
- Colourful dunes on wind-swept Mars (05 Oct 2017)
- ALMA and Rosetta detect freon-40 in space (05 Oct 2017)
- Venus's turbulent atmosphere (24 Sep 2017)
- Researchers create first global map of water in moon's soil (24 Sep 2017)
- NASA's Lunar mission captures solar eclipse as seen from the moon (24 Sep 2017)
- NASA's LRO team wants you to wave at the moon (24 Sep 2017)
- NASA's Hubble sees martian moon orbiting the Red Planet (24 Sep 2017)
- Unravelling Earth’s magnetic field (23 Sep 2017)
- UH research finds evidence of 2 billion years of volcanic activity on Mars (23 Sep 2017)
- Tracking a solar eruption through the Solar System (23 Sep 2017)
- SwRI scientists discover evidence for a habitable region within Saturn's moon Enceladus (23 Sep 2017)
- Printing bricks from moondust using the Sun’s heat (23 Sep 2017)
- New MAVEN findings reveal how Mars' atmosphere was lost to space (23 Sep 2017)
- NASA's OSIRIS-REx takes its first image of Jupiter (23 Sep 2017)
- NASA's OSIRIS-REx takes closer image of Jupiter (23 Sep 2017)
- NASA's MAVEN mission observes ups and downs of water escape from Mars (23 Sep 2017)
- NASA's Hubble takes close-up portrait of Jupiter (23 Sep 2017)
- NASA moon data provides more accurate 2017 eclipse path (23 Sep 2017)
- MAVEN's top 10 discoveries at Mars (23 Sep 2017)
- Hubble takes close-up portrait of Jupiter (23 Sep 2017)
- Gravitational wave mission selected, planet-hunting mission moves forward (23 Sep 2017)
- First steps: returning humanity to the Moon (23 Sep 2017)
- First results from long-term, hi-res tracking of eruptions on Jupiter's moon Io (23 Sep 2017)
- Experiment resolves mystery about wind flows on Jupiter (23 Sep 2017)
- ESA’s Jupiter mission moves off the drawing board (23 Sep 2017)
- Cassini detects hydrothermal processes on one of Saturn's moons (23 Sep 2017)
- Cassini concludes pioneering mission at Saturn (23 Sep 2017)
- Methane-flooded canyons on Titan (22 Sep 2017)
- Magnetic oceans and electric Earth (22 Sep 2017)
- A record of ancient tectonic stress on Mars (22 Sep 2017)
- Researchers discover effect of rare solar wind on Earth's radiation belts (21 Sep 2017)
- Fossilized rivers suggest warm, wet ancient Mars (30 Aug 2016)
- Spotlight on Schiaparelli’s landing site (24 Aug 2016)
- Researchers find most volcanic activity on Mercury stopped about 3.5 billion years ago (24 Aug 2016)
- Decades of discovery: NASA's exploration of Jupiter (24 Aug 2016)
- What a planet needs to sustain life (22 Aug 2016)
- NASA confirms evidence that liquid water flows on today's Mars (Update) (04 Aug 2016)
- How comets are born (29 Jul 2016)
- Stunning new Pluto aerial tour (25 Jul 2016)
- Mars navigation (22 Jul 2016)
- Astronomers discover new distant dwarf planet beyond Neptune (21 Jul 2016)
- Enceladus and its paper-thin crust (06 Jul 2016)
- Juno spacecraft breaks solar power distance record (04 Jul 2016)
- CaSSIS sends first image of Mars (04 Jul 2016)
- NASA's Juno spacecraft enters Jupiter's magnetic field (02 Jul 2016)
- What are asteroids? (30 Jun 2016)
- What are asteroids made of? (30 Jun 2016)
- The moons of Saturn (30 Jun 2016)
- Sweeping over the south pole of Mars (30 Jun 2016)
- New Pluto images from NASA's New Horizons (30 Jun 2016)
- New Horizons probes the mystery of Charon's red pole (30 Jun 2016)
- Ceres' bright spots seen in striking new detail (30 Jun 2016)
- Pluto's moon Nix (29 Jun 2016)
- Dawn sends sharper scenes from Ceres (29 Jun 2016)
- What did Earth's ancient magnetic field look like? (25 Jun 2016)
- CT scan of Earth links deep mantle plumes with volcanic hotspots (25 Jun 2016)
- Hubble confirms new dark spot on Neptune (24 Jun 2016)
- An ocean lies a few kilometers beneath Saturn's moon Enceladus's icy surface (23 Jun 2016)
- Image: Made for Mercury—the BepiColombo Mercury Magnetosphere Orbiter (21 Jun 2016)
- The gas giant Jupiter (14 Jun 2016)
- The dwarf planet Quaoar (14 Jun 2016)
- Juno spacecraft crosses Jupiter / Sun gravitational boundary (12 Jun 2016)
- Swirling ammonia lies below Jupiter's thick clouds (03 Jun 2016)
- New radio map of Jupiter reveals what's beneath colorful clouds (03 Jun 2016)
- Cameras delivered for OSIRIS-REx mission as launch prep continues (31 May 2016)
- AIM: Asteroid touchdown (31 May 2016)
- Rosetta’s comet contains ingredients for life (28 May 2016)
- Cassini's final breathtaking close views of Dione (28 May 2016)
- What is the Earth's average temperature? (27 May 2016)
- What is A dwarf planet? (27 May 2016)
- Rosetta's big day in the sun (27 May 2016)
- NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will have a map for that (26 May 2016)
- Mars Webcam goes pro (26 May 2016)
- Mars Triptych (26 May 2016)
- Extraterrestrial oceans – beneath the surface (21 May 2016)
- The Planet Saturn (16 May 2016)
- The planet Mercury (16 May 2016)
- The moons of Saturn (16 May 2016)
- Neptune's moon of Triton (16 May 2016)
- Three-tailed Comet Q1 PanSTARRS lights up Southern skies (14 May 2016)
- ARIEL mission to reveal 'Brave New Worlds' among exoplanets (14 May 2016)
- Transit of Mercury seen by Proba-2 (12 May 2016)
- More than 1,200 new planets confirmed using new technique for verifying Kepler data (12 May 2016)
- Lunar ice drill (12 May 2016)
- Earth’s magnetic heartbeat (12 May 2016)
- Uranus' moon Titania (10 May 2016)
- Study suggests active volcanism on Venus (09 May 2016)
- Mars camera makes 60,000 orbits of Red Planet (09 May 2016)
- What is Halley's Comet? (08 May 2016)
- Image: Messenger's iridescent Mercury (08 May 2016)
- 'Hello Earth!': Comet probe Philae wakes up (08 May 2016)
- Earth's core contains 90 percent of Earth's sulfur, new research shows (08 May 2016)
- A timeline of comet probe's 11-year journey (08 May 2016)
- The moons of Jupiter (07 May 2016)
- The difference between asteroids and meteorites (07 May 2016)
- Image: The effect of the winds of Mars (07 May 2016)
- Will we ever colonize Mars? (04 May 2016)
- What is lunar regolith? (04 May 2016)
- Cassini prepares for last up-close look at Hyperion (04 May 2016)
- What are extrasolar planets? (03 May 2016)
- NASA's Europa mission begins with selection of science instruments (03 May 2016)
- Kepler's six years in science (and counting) (02 May 2016)
- MESSENGER reveals Mercury's magnetic field secrets (30 Apr 2016)
- Opportunity of a lifetime—NASA's 4,000 days roving Mars (29 Apr 2016)
- NASA completes MESSENGER mission with expected impact on Mercury's surface (29 Apr 2016)
- Giant telescope takes close look at Jupiter's moon Io (29 Apr 2016)
- Mercury's MESSENGER mission comes to a crashing climax (26 Apr 2016)
- Image: Saturn's sponge-like moon Hyperion (24 Apr 2016)
- What is the surface of Neptune like? (23 Apr 2016)
- Mercury MESSENGER nears epic mission end (23 Apr 2016)
- Dating the moon-forming impact event with meteorites (23 Apr 2016)
- Asteroid Juno seen traveling through space in new ALMA images and animation (21 Apr 2016)
- OSIRIS-REx mission passes critical milestone (19 Apr 2016)
- More evidence for groundwater on Mars (19 Apr 2016)
- Hubble observations suggest underground ocean on Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede (17 Apr 2016)
- Titan's was atmosphere created by gases escaping the core (16 Apr 2016)
- New technique allows analysis of clouds around exoplanets (15 Apr 2016)
- What is Mars made of? (14 Apr 2016)
- Why meteors light up the night sky (13 Apr 2016)
- Interesting facts about planet Mars (13 Apr 2016)
- Will we mine asteroids? (12 Apr 2016)
- Some of the best pictures of the planets in our solar system (12 Apr 2016)
- New tool refines exoplanet search (12 Apr 2016)
- Curiosity rover finds active, ancient organic chemistry on Mars (12 Apr 2016)
- What Philae did in its 60 hours on Comet 67P (11 Apr 2016)
- Mile-high Mars mounds built by wind and climate change (05 Apr 2016)
- The formation and development of desert dunes on Titan (29 Mar 2016)
- 'Spectacular' image shows planet formation in action – Physics World (29 Mar 2016)
- Miranda: An icy moon deformed by tidal heating (26 Mar 2016)
- Young sun-like star shows a magnetic field was critical for life on the early Earth (24 Mar 2016)
- New gravity map gives best view yet inside Mars (24 Mar 2016)
- Climate variations analyzed five million years back in time (16 Mar 2016)
- Studying the solar system with NASA's Webb Telescope (15 Mar 2016)
- Mercury's mysterious 'darkness' revealed (15 Mar 2016)
- Two dynamos drive Jupiter's magnetic field (05 Feb 2016)
- Inside Rosetta’s comet (05 Feb 2016)
- Moon's tidal forces affect amount of rainfall on Earth (02 Feb 2016)
- Increase in volcanic eruptions at the end of the ice age caused by melting ice caps and erosion (02 Feb 2016)
- How strong is gravity on other planets? (02 Jan 2016)
- Simulating the jet streams and anticyclones of Jupiter and Saturn (22 Dec 2015)
- Second instrument delivered for OSIRIS-REx mission (21 Dec 2015)
- Hubble's planetary portrait captures new changes in Jupiter's Great Red Spot (21 Dec 2015)
- From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth (21 Dec 2015)
- New research shows Earth's tilt influences climate change (18 Dec 2015)
- New research shows Earth's core contains 90 percent of Earth's sulfur (11 Dec 2015)
- NASA's Hubble observations suggest underground ocean on Jupiter's largest moon (07 Dec 2015)
- Researchers use NASA and other data to look into the heart of a solar storm (02 Dec 2015)
- Destination: Venus (23 Nov 2015)
- MAVEN results: Delving into the atmosphere of Mars (22 Nov 2015)
- Mapping winds and dune evolution on the Red Planet (17 Nov 2015)
- ESA image: Saturn's moon Rhea, Epimetheus transiting (29 Oct 2015)
- ALMA confirms comets forge organic molecules in their dusty atmospheres (29 Oct 2015)
- Still hot inside the Moon: Tidal heating in the deepest part of the lunar mantle (28 Oct 2015)
- Rotation of planets influences habitability (28 Oct 2015)
- NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft's 10 years in space (28 Oct 2015)
- Extreme volcanism: Image captures 1 of the brightest volcanoes in the solar system (28 Oct 2015)
- Rosetta measures comet's temperature (22 Oct 2015)
- Landing site recommended for ExoMars 2018 (22 Oct 2015)
- New Horizons reveals Pluto's striking surface variations and unique moon rotations (20 Oct 2015)
- First scientific results from flyby of Pluto (20 Oct 2015)
- ESA Science & Technology - Hubble's planetary portrait captures changes in Jupiter's Great Red Spot [heic1522] (20 Oct 2015)
- Climate models used to explain formation of Mars valley networks (14 Oct 2015)
- Mysterious ripples found racing through planet-forming disk (09 Oct 2015)
- Core Finding: Earth's Frozen Center Formed a Billion Years Ago (08 Oct 2015)
- How do we terraform Venus? (06 Oct 2015)
- Seeing Earth as an exoplanet: What signs of life are visible? (05 Oct 2015)
- Why does Venus' atmosphere rotate sixty times faster than its surface? (03 Oct 2015)
- Fingerprinting the formation of giant planets (03 Oct 2015)
- ASU, USGS project yields sharpest map of Mars' surface properties (03 Oct 2015)
- The gas (and ice) giant Neptune (14 Sep 2015)
- The moons of Neptune (10 Sep 2015)
- Epoch-defining study pinpoints when humans came to dominate planet Earth (10 Sep 2015)
- 3D map of Earth’s core shows how volcanoes are formed (08 Sep 2015)
- First measurements taken of South Africa's Iron Age magnetic field history (07 Sep 2015)
- Organic molecules in Titan's atmosphere are intriguingly skewed (05 Sep 2015)
- Mercury's core dynamo present early in planet's history (05 Sep 2015)
- Mercury's magnetic field tells scientists how its interior is different from Earth's (04 Sep 2015)
- Asteroid attacks significantly altered ancient Earth (04 Sep 2015)
- Venus Express snaps swirling vortex (03 Sep 2015)
- Touchdown! Rosetta’s Philae probe lands on comet (03 Sep 2015)
- Top 10 at 10 km (03 Sep 2015)
- The effect of the winds of Mars (03 Sep 2015)
- Rosetta fuels debate on origin of Earth’s oceans (03 Sep 2015)
- Rosetta arrives at comet destination (03 Sep 2015)
- Preparing to build ESA’s Jupiter mission (03 Sep 2015)
- Magnetic complexity begins to untangle (03 Sep 2015)
- Lifetime of gravity measurements heralds new beginning (03 Sep 2015)
- How Rosetta arrives at a comet (03 Sep 2015)
- Hot water activity on icy moon’s seafloor (03 Sep 2015)
- Hot lava flows discovered on Venus (03 Sep 2015)
- Crossing the boundary from high to low on Mars (03 Sep 2015)
- SwRI scientists study nitrogen provision for Pluto's atmosphere (25 Aug 2015)
- Could we terraform Jupiter? (07 Aug 2015)
- After Pluto there's still plenty of the solar system left to explore (24 Jul 2015)
- India drift (21 Jul 2015)
- Extent of moon's giant volcanic eruption is revealed (21 Jul 2015)
- Pluto's escaping atmosphere extends 1,000 miles out into space (20 Jul 2015)
- Violent solar system history uncovered by WA meteorite (17 Jul 2015)
- How much magma is hiding beneath our feet? (17 Jul 2015)
- A hellacious two weeks on Jupiter's moon Io (17 Jul 2015)
- Forces of martian nature (15 Jul 2015)
- Beyond Pluto—New Horizons' mission is not over yet (15 Jul 2015)
- What is the Kuiper Belt? (14 Jul 2015)
- Pluto, now blurry, will become clear with NASA flyby (14 Jul 2015)
- Pluto just 4 weeks, 20 million miles away for spacecraft (14 Jul 2015)
- Pluto at Last! NASA Spacecraft Arrives for Dwarf Planet Close-Up Tuesday (14 Jul 2015)
- New Horizons only one year from Pluto (w/ Video) (14 Jul 2015)
- NASA Spacecraft Wakes Up as It Approaches Pluto (14 Jul 2015)
- ALMA pinpoints Pluto to help guide NASA's New Horizons spacecraft (14 Jul 2015)
- Same forces as today caused climate changes 1.4 billion years ago (05 Jul 2015)
- What set the Earth's plates in motion? (04 Jul 2015)
- Earth's water is older than the sun (04 Jul 2015)
- Driest place on Earth hosts life (19 May 2015)
- Image: Chaos on watery Europa (11 May 2015)
- NASA Hubble Telescope Hunts for New Horizons' Targets for After its Pluto Mission (16 Aug 2014)
- Ancient worlds could be kept 'alive' by gravitational nudges (01 Jul 2014)
- Ancient ocean currents may have changed pacing and intensity of ice ages (29 Jun 2014)
- EARTH Magazine: Rosetta off to decipher a comet's secrets (28 Jun 2014)
- Fine, You Reached Pluto. So What's Next? (26 Jun 2014)
- The Real Sun Shower: How Rain and Waterfalls Form and Pour on our Nearest Star (VIDEO) (25 Jun 2014)
- Saturn's Titan's Building Blocks May be Older Than the Sun (24 Jun 2014)
- Hottest lava eruption linked to growth of first continents (24 Jun 2014)
- Mysterious 'Magic Island' appears on Saturn's moon Titan (22 Jun 2014)