Amy Shira Teitel from DNews explains where on Mars scientists are looking for the signs of extraterrestrial life and why. She speaks about the Gale Crater and NASA’s Mars Curiosity mission, which focuses on...
ESA’s Mars Express has taken high-resolution images of Siloe Patera, an area of Martian surface rgar is composed of two craters. Scientists believe that it could be the remnants of Mars’ supervolcano, which reminds...
NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity started its journey 11 years ago. On March 24th, 2015, it finished its first Martian Marathon, which every step was a search for new discoveries. Its mission is to gather...
Christina Beck, a planetary geologist of the Johns Hopkins University, explores the geology of Mars by using the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM). One of her fields of research is Valles Marineris,...
In this video, Dr. Nick Siegler, Technology Manager of the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program, explains how coronagraph, a promising technology, works in searching for exoplanets. For this purpose, scientists use a space telescope with...
NASA’s Cassini mission enables scientists to rethink the nature of a hundred geysers they found on Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth moon. They reconsidered their previous explanation on erupting jet-like geysers on Enceladus and concluded that...
For scientists, the question about water on planet Mars always represents an enigma. Now, they have evidence that ancient Mars had water, but they still do not know how much. Some speculate that there...
This video gives us the highlights of the May sky 2015. The month begins with brilliant Venus and Mercury, shining in the western sky as the evening’s planets. Even though Mercury will disappear under...
On its 9-year-old journey to the unexplored world of Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons captured the first color photo of this planet. The image of Pluto and its moon, Charon, is taken on April 9,...
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope discovered a new gas planet, the most distant planet we know. Spitzer telescope together with ground telescopes uses a specific technique called microlens parallax technique in order to determine the...
The following video shows us Rhea, one of the Saturn’s moons as high resolution images taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in February this year. The photographs reveal many details about its surface, we previously...
Scientists have long assumed that the largest Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede, has a liquid water beneath its surface. The new evidence from the Hubble Space Telescope confirmed that Ganymede has a vast ocean, which is...
In this video, scientists explain what has happened to Jupiter, when the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit it in July 1994. According to them, Jupiter as the largest and the most massive planet in our...
In the following video, it is explained how Martian desert landscapes were shaped. Scientists revealed that it caused flowing water, which covered about a fifth of the planet in the distant past.
This video explores physical conditions on Venus, the planet that was born similar to Earth and was made of the same substance. Comparing temperature, atmosphere, and surface of the both planets, Venus and Earth,...
In this infrared image, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot appears white. It baffles scientists very long and according to a recent theory, this is, in fact, sunburn.
Scientists have discovered strong volcanic activity on Mars that hit the Red Planet at least 5 times repeatedly. These events change Martian surface forever, giving it such recognizable look full of craters and the...
Scientists discovered that planet Mars carries only fragile parts of magnetic fields, covering a few regions of the planet. They speculate about the causes, which could weaken the Martian magnetic field. One of their...
