NASA picks missions to Venus, Triton and Io as finalists for Discovery funding NASA has selected four proposed Discovery-class interplanetary missions to receive $3 million to flesh out their concepts, with the aim… Read More
Breakthrough Discuss turns spotlight on search for life elsewhere in solar system STANFORD, Calif. — Are there microbes falling in the snows of Enceladus? Could a drone fly to biological hot spots… Read More
From haven to hell: NASA climate models suggest Venus may have been habitable Today Venus is a hellish planet with a crushingly dense atmosphere of carbon dioxide, but billions of years ago, it… Read More
Those mysterious bright spots on Ceres? Probably salty ice, scientists say For months, scientists have puzzled over weirdly bright spots of material shining on the asteroid Ceres, but now they say the… Read More
