NASA's Phoenix probe will experience a harrowing few minutes on 25 May when it attempts to land on the Red Planet without airbags
Breaking News - 21:27 13 May 2008
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New online images could hold clues to the fate of NASA's Mars Polar Lander, which was lost on the Red Planet in 1999
Breaking News - 20:09 12 May 2008
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Experiments suggest solid iron snow may fall from two layers of clouds inside Mercury's liquid outer core
Breaking News - 17:21 09 May 2008
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A miniature detector could pick out magnetic rocks on Mars that might have been made by bacteria
Breaking News - 19:11 08 May 2008
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Two dust devils towering nearly a kilometre high have appeared at the exact spot where the Phoenix lander is due to touch down in a few weeks
Breaking News - 17:28 07 May 2008
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The collision that gave birth to the Moon may have produced other satellites that lingered in Earth's skies for millions of years
Breaking News - 05:00 06 May 2008
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A suitcase-sized satellite will search for potentially dangerous asteroids - some may be hard to spot from the ground
Breaking News - 23:31 05 May 2008
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A NASA spacecraft set to launch in 2015 will come eight times closer to the Sun than any previous probe, flying within its scorching outer atmosphere
Breaking News - 16:56 05 May 2008
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Europe's ExoMars mission will carry an instrument called Urey, which will determine whether any amino acids on Mars were made by life
Breaking News - 21:40 01 May 2008
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A powerful, five-month-long storm continues to rage on Saturn, making it the planet's longest continuously observed tempest
Breaking News - 17:58 30 April 2008
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Contrary to expectations, some auroras appear to be polarised, with their electromagnetic waves lined up in a common orientation
Breaking News - 20:44 29 April 2008
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Mars's low gravity allows sand grains to leap around 100 times higher and farther than those on Earth, accounting for huge dunes and dust storms
Breaking News - 22:00 28 April 2008
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Problems with a motor controlling the sideways motion of the rover Opportunity's robotic arm are worsening - bad news for the mission
Breaking News - 18:45 24 April 2008
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A collision with Mercury or Mars could doom life on Earth long before the Sun bakes the planet to a crisp, new computer simulations suggest
Breaking News - 05:03 23 April 2008
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Claims that a German teen discovered that NASA had underestimated the risk of an asteroid impact by 100 times are false, say scientists
Breaking News - 00:05 17 April 2008
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With less than two months to go before it is due to land on Mars, NASA's Phoenix probe aims for an icy spot with an idyllic nickname
Breaking News - 22:37 11 April 2008
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Traces of vaporised asteroids have been found in ocean mud, providing a new way to study impacts whose scars have long since vanished
Breaking News - 20:28 10 April 2008
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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken the highest quality images yet of Phobos – the tiny moon will one day be destroyed by the Red Planet
Breaking News - 22:29 09 April 2008
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A whirling vortex at Saturn's south pole may be driven by updrafts of warm, moist air – just like hurricanes on Earth
Breaking News - 18:20 27 March 2008
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The moon's composition resembles that of a comet – a puzzle since it formed much closer to the Sun
Breaking News - 21:24 26 March 2008
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Last week, the agency requested $4 million in cuts to its popular rover mission – it will now take the money from another programme
Breaking News - 17:37 25 March 2008
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The newly discovered deposits probably formed when salty lakes evaporated long ago, possibly preserving past life
Breaking News - 22:28 20 March 2008
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Changes in the spin rate of the Saturn moon suggest it harbours an ocean of liquid water – which might host life – beneath its icy surface
Breaking News - 18:45 20 March 2008
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Solitary soliton waves, which hold their shape as they travel, appear on Earth in water and optical fibres – now one has been seen in space
Breaking News - 16:25 18 March 2008
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Like the spray of a shaken soda can, geysers of carbonated water once shot several kilometres above the Martian surface
Breaking News - 16:15 17 March 2008
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In a rare mission setback, a glitch prevented Cassini's dust analyser from studying the composition of Enceladus's icy plumes
Breaking News - 13:56 14 March 2008
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Members of Congress say a dwindling budget may prevent NASA from continuing all of its science projects and pulling off bold new missions
Breaking News - 13:30 14 March 2008
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Most plants can't grow in the tough soil, but resilient cyanobacteria found in hot springs can – a trait future lunar colonists could exploit
Breaking News - 00:53 14 March 2008
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Two rocks found in Antarctica may be chunks of a dwarf planet that was smashed apart in the early solar system
Breaking News - 05:04 13 March 2008
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Stony meteorites like the one that hit Peru in 2007 usually break up in the sky – new work explains how the pieces stayed together to make a crater
Breaking News - 17:20 12 March 2008
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In a feat of derring-do, Cassini will dive into the moon Enceladus's icy plumes, perhaps revealing if they arise in a subsurface ocean
Breaking News - 01:14 12 March 2008
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Clay-encrusted boulders discovered in a large Martian crater point to ancient lakes that just might have hosted life
Breaking News - 18:23 07 March 2008
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Slight deviations in the predicted motion of a handful of spacecraft passing near Earth might be explained by the planet's rotation
Breaking News - 22:44 04 March 2008
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A NASA orbiter has captured the first images of Martian avalanches – melting ice, high winds or a meteorite impact may have triggered the flows
Breaking News - 14:57 04 March 2008
