03.20.08 - NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has found evidence of salt deposits.
03.20.08 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon Titan.
03.19.08 - The Hubble Space Telescope has found methane in the atmosphere of a gas giant more than 60 light-years away.
03.18.08 - Scientists are monitoring the amount and age of sea ice to see if the declining trend persists.
03.13.08 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make an unprecedented "in your face" flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wed., March 12.
03.03.08 - A NASA spacecraft in orbit around Mars has taken the first ever image of active avalanches near the Red Planet's north pole.
03.10.08 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make an unprecedented "in your face" flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wed., March 12.
03.04.08 - For reasons not fully understood, auroras are more common in the spring than at other times. The five-craft THEMIS fleet may help scientists determine why.
02.27.08 - NASA has obtained the highest resolution terrain mapping to date of the moon's rugged south polar region, with a resolution to 20 meters per pixel.
02.27.08 - In a car commercial, it would sound odd: active suspension, six-wheel drive with independent steering for each wheel, no doors, no windows, no seats and the only color it comes in is gold.
02.20.08 - New microprocessors for the telescope are about the size of a half-dollar and can do the same job as a 20-pound electronics box.
02.04.08 - NASA announced a $17.6 billion budget for fiscal year 2009 to continue exploring the solar system, building the International Space Station, studying Earth from space and conducting aeronautics research.
01.31.08 - For the first time ever, NASA beamed a song -- The Beatles' "Across the Universe" -- directly into deep space. "Well done, NASA!" says Sir Paul McCartney.
01.30.08 - The recent flyby of Mercury by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has given scientists an entirely new look at a planet once thought to have characteristics similar to those of Earth's moon.
01.30.08 - Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Dan Tani replaced a motor at the base of one of the International Space Station's solar wings during a 7-hour, 10-minute spacewalk that ended at 12:06 p.m. EST Wednesday.
01.23.08 - Ice loss in Antarctica increased by 75 percent in the last 10 years due to a speed-up in the flow of its glaciers and is now nearly as great as that observed in Greenland.
01.24.08 - NASA officials discuss NASA's Earth science program and preview major activities planned for 2008, including the launch of two new Earth-observing missions and a weather satellite.
01.23.08 - Mars has an ethereal, tenuous atmosphere with less than one-percent the surface pressure of Earth, which challenges scientists to explain complex, wind-sculpted landforms seen with unprecedented detail in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
01.14.07 - A pioneering NASA spacecraft becomes the first to visit Mercury in almost 33 years.
01.15.08 - NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind.