Interior Of Mars Is Colder Than Previously Thought, So Any Possi...

Phoenix To Bake Ice-Rich Sample Next Week
The next sample delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA) will be ice-rich. A team of engineers and...

Cassini To Earth: 'Mission Accomplished, But New Questions Await...
NASA's Cassini mission is closing one chapter of its journey at Saturn and embarking on a new one with a two-year mission that will address new...

SOHO discovers its 1,500th comet
(European Space Agency) The ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft has just discovered its 1,500th comet, making it more successful than all other comet...

NASA Plans To Visit The Sun
For more than 400 years, astronomers have studied the sun from afar. Now NASA has decided to go there. The name of the mission is Solar Probe+. It's...

Warm Coronal Loops Offer Clue To Mysteriously Hot Solar Atmosphe...
Scientists at NASA reveal a new understanding of the mysterious mechanism responsible for heating the outer part of the solar atmosphere, the corona,...