<p>Pluto’s atmosphere is cold and hazy. Recent observations have shown it to be much colder than predicted theoretically, suggesting an unknown cooling mechanism. Atmospheric gas molecules, particularly
The nearly 900kg Nasa’s Curiosity rover which touched down on the Red Planet’s Gale Grater on August 6 has “discovered hints of organic compounds which could aid primitive life,’’ mission scientists announced
Mercury is as cold as ice. Indeed, Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, possesses a lot of ice — 100 billion to one trillion tonnes — scientists working with Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft reported on
Scientists on Thursday announced new evidence that Mercury, the planet orbiting nearest the sun, hosts massive caches of ice and revealed new information on how water reached our solar system’s inner planets.
India plans to launch a space probe that will orbit Mars in November 2013, a senior official from the country's space research establishment said on Monday. "We are scheduling to launch the Mars mission
A team of astronomers has found two planets orbiting around a pair of stars roughly 5,000 light years away from the Earth, declaring it the first multi-planet system centering a binary star. Named as
The US space agency has just landed a huge new robot rover on Mars. The one-tonne vehicle, known as Curiosity, was reported to have landed in a deep crater near the planet's equator at 06:32 BST (05:32
Scientists poring over data collected by NASA's Kepler space telescope have discovered a world outside its field of view, demonstrating a new technique for finding planets beyond the Solar System, scientists
A study using the Herschel space telescope aimed to measure the fraction of deuterium, a rare type of hydrogen, present in the comet’s water. Like our oceans, it had half the amount of deuterium seen
Scientists have discovered that the upper atmosphere of Mars contains up to a hundred times more water than previously thought, a finding they say could change our understanding of the Martian climate.
From double sunrise to double sunset the show goes on, always changing. Sometimes the orange sun rises first. Sometimes it is the red one, although they are never far apart in the sky and you can see
