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New World Asteroid Photographed
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 - Anuradha Menon
See images of the largest asteroid ever seen up close by humans. The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft took the...

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Hotspots Leave Magnetic Scars On Mars

Friday, June 25th, 2010 - 14:53:31 - Anuradha Menon

After the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) settled into orbit around the red planet in 1997, a magnetometer on board began sending back measurements that...

Modelling Mars in a Texan Torrent

Monday, June 21st, 2010 - 11:51:18 - Ehud Rattner

Huge canyon carved out in a week may aid understanding of prehistoric megafloods. A torrential downpour that carved a seven-metre-deep canyon through...

River Deltas Hint at Ancient Martian Ocean

Monday, June 14th, 2010 - 11:51:38 - Ehud Rattner

Planetary geologists in the United States have analysed data that suggest Mars was once home to a huge ocean of water, covering nearly one-third of...

Mars Rover Finds Conditions More Conducive

Friday, June 4th, 2010 - 16:29:39 - Anuradha Menon

More than four years after they were gathered, hard-to-interpret data from the Mars rover Spirit have finally been cracked. They reveal carbonate...

Mars Rover Sets Endurance Record

Friday, May 21st, 2010 - 12:16:17 - Anuradha Menon

Look to the southwest in tonight's sky, and if it's a clear night, you'll see the ruddy dot of Mars just to the right of the bright star Regulus...

Next Mars Rover To Include 3D Camera

Friday, April 30th, 2010 - 10:33:03 - Anuradha Menon

Movie director James Cameron, of Avatar and Titanic fame, is helping to build a 3-D camera for the next robotic rover that NASA will send to Mars...

Lava Cave Minerals Actually Microbe Poop

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 - 09:04:57 - Anuradha Menon

Colorful cave deposits long thought to be ordinary minerals are actually mats of waste excreted by previously unknown types of microbes, scientists...

Evidence of Ancient Lake on Mars
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 - Janice Karin
Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have discovered evidence of shorelines on Mars, indicating the presence...