Looking Up

Space Scientists Call for Volunteers to Help Guide Mission to Solar System’s Edge Looking for a cutting-edge science project for your youngster? Here’s one that will help the space effort as well as educate—and it …[READ MORE]

Cassini Spacecraft Captures Ocean-Like Spray from Saturn’s Moon– NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has discovered the best evidence yet for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The data came from the …[READ MORE]

Asteroids May Have Brought Us Life’s Ingredients Some asteroids may have been like “molecular factories” cranking out life’s ingredients and shipping them to Earth via meteorite impacts, according to scientists who’ve made discoveries of molecules …[READ MORE]

New Mars Rover to Have 3-D Color Vision; “Highway to the Stars” Opens to Mt. Wilson Two digital color cameras riding high on the mast of NASA’s next Mars rover will complement each other in …[READ MORE]

Searching for Intelligent Life on 86 Earth-Like Planets Now that NASA’s Kepler space telescope has identified 1,235 possible planets around stars in our galaxy, astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, are aiming a radio …[READ MORE]

Herschel Space Observatory Lives Up to the Family Name — Astronomy is about scientific discoveries, and every week our scientists bring us new and richer views of the Universe around us. But astronomy is also …[READ MORE]

Sailing the Titan Seas: NASA Selects Mission to Saturn’s Moon — The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., is managing a project to explore the organic seas of Saturn’s moon Titan, …[READ MORE]

NASA Orbiter Reveals Buried Dry Ice Deposit on Mars NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered that the total amount of atmosphere on Mars changes dramatically as the tilt of the planet’s axis varies. This process …[READ MORE]