NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission engineers and managers cheered when images from the Martian surface confirmed Opportunity successfully escaped from a sand trap
- NASA
A recent flyby of Saturn's hazy moon Titan by the Cassini spacecraft has revealed evidence of a possible volcano, which could be a source of methane in Titan's atmosphere - NASA/JPL
ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft has for the first time ever detected an aurora on Mars. This aurora is of a type never previously observed in the Solar System - ESA
Thanks to measurements by the D-CIXS X-ray spectrometer, ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft has made the first ever unambiguous remote-sensing detection of calcium on the Moon - ESA
Reclusive galaxies that live in vast, empty regions of space are forming stars at a surprisingly high rate, reveals the largest survey of galaxies ever made - New Scientist
Space missions looking for other Earths could be fooled into seeing them where none exist. At first glance, such planets would be indistinguishable from comets orbiting around the same star, even though comets are minuscule compared to planets - New Scientist
After Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930, the planet drew considerable scrutiny. Unfortunately, modern analysis shows that many Pluto observations from the 1930s and 40s were unreliable - Sky and Telescope
A stalled experiment to search for underground water on Mars is back on track after officials agreed to deploy the second of two identical radar booms on Europe's Mars Express spacecraft - New Scientist
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