Saturn’s flying saucer moon Atlas has a smooth fluffy edge
The Cassini spacecraft just made its final flyby of the small moon Atlas, grabbing the best pictures yet and showing a surprising softness
Anything Living On Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Might Belch Methane
Mars’s atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn’t exist
Earth’s magnetic field provokes layers of iron and magnesium in the atmosphere, but Mars has no such field - so finding similar layers is a surprise
Water telescope uses gamma rays to track new kind of pulsar
We may have found a fresh way to spot the spinning corpses of massive stars, using the glow of interstellar gas – and maybe a new class of pulsar too
NASA funds radical Pluto hopper and cosmic echolocation concepts
The space agency just announced the recipients of its Innovative Advanced Concepts programme, which kickstarts researchers’ so-crazy-it-just-might-work ideas
Atmosphere containing water detected around rocky exoplanet
An exoplanet just 1.4 times the size of Earth has an atmosphere containing water and methane, new observations show
Oldest dust ever spotted in the universe seen in distant galaxy
We’ve spotted dust in a galaxy whose light reaches us from when the universe was only 600 million years old – a game changer for studying the earliest galaxies
Yup, Rockets Need Insurance, Too. But Way More Than the Feds Think
Watch SpaceX Launch Its First Truly Reusable Rocket
Backwards asteroid shares an orbit with Jupiter without crashing
A rare retrograde asteroid has been spotted in Jupiter's orbital zone - and nudges from the giant planet may have kept it stable there for a million years