In another reminder that the Red Planet features a complex and active surface, the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars…
Data is streaming in from New Horizons after yesterday’s historic flyby of Pluto — and it’s painting a picture of…
Using the OSIRIS camera aboard the Rosetta spacecraft, ESA scientists have discovered a strange formation of what…
It may be a terrestrial planet, but the changing atmospheric conditions on the so-called “Diamond Planet” are…
There's a strange bulge on the Solar System's largest moon, one that measures 375 miles wide and nearly two miles…
It may not look like much — just an old rock with dust on it. But after careful examination of this and other images…
Data collected by the Curiosity Rover suggests Mars once featured a moderate climate capable of fostering lakes of…
NASA's HiRISE has sent back a rather peculiar image of a circular landform on the surface of Mars.
It's not the prettiest thing in the solar system, nor is it the most interesting. But Mimas — a pockmarked moon in…
Remember that bizarre "magic island" on Titan's northern seas? The one that suddenly emerged and then inexplicably…
If there's one thing to be said for Curiosity's mission on Mars so far, it certainly hasn't been boring. From suppose…
A recent geological survey of Europa revealed that a massive 20,000 square-kilometer portion of the surface was…
Scientists have found a strange structure resembling a microbial cell inside a Martian meteorite, but they're not…
It's generally agreed that liquid water and a stable atmosphere are the minimal requirements for life. But new…
What you're looking at here is not an impact crater. It's a large hole on the Moon's surface that formed when the…
After 16 years of painstaking work, the U.S. Geological Survey has released a series of geologic maps that offer the…
Saturn's largest moon has truly strange geography. Astronomers working on the Cassini mission recently observed the…
Astronomers believe that Pluto and its moon were the result of two massive objects slamming into each other. The…
Other than Earth, Titan is the only celestial object in the solar system capable of fostering stable liquids on the…
The planet Mercury is our solar system's shrunken head. The scorched first rock from the sun has contracted into…