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Europlanet : CoRoT - Preliminary Results
ESA's planet-hunting satellite COROT bagged its first exoplanet in observations of the star COROT-Exo-1.
A little good news on the rovers
The skies aren't quite as dark as they have been, for both Spirit and Opportunity. In fact, Spirit has enough power now to be doing a little work with its robotic arm.
High tau for Spirit and Opportunity
Over the weekend I fiddled with the
Dust storm update: rovers still OK
The dust storm continues at Mars, but both rovers continue to be power-positive.
Mars Exploration Rovers update: Spirit and Opportunity are both still talking to Earth
Both Spirit and Opportunity are still suffering under incredibly dark skies, but, amazingly, they are both
Yet another active world: Charon
I've just posted a news story on a recently published paper that suggests that Pluto's moon Charon may have active ice volcanoes.
The dust storm has brought gloom to Opportunity's skies, but everything is OK
Opportunity has ceased operations for a couple of days because the amount of sunlight available is low due to an unpredicted dust storm.
Bedtime for New Horizons
According to the mission website, the New Horizons spacecraft has drifted off to sleep, entering its
Spirit gets brushed off
There was great news last night from Mars Exploration Rover mission operations: Spirit seems to have enjoyed another
The original "Puddles on Mars" story has been retracted
Today, New Scientist and researcher Ron Levin retracted the
Flyby of Venus Speeds MESSENGER Onward to Mercury
The MESSENGER spacecraft is zeroing in on Venus for the most significant gravity assist maneuver of its long journey to Mercury.
Mimas, Dione, Rhea
There's been quite a lot of Mars on this page for the last week; it's time to remind ourselves that there are other places besides Mars in the solar system.
Windows Onto the Abyss: Cave Skylights on Mars
Today's set of image releases from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE team included this one, of a fairly bland-looking lava plain to the northeast of Arsia Mons. Bland, that is, except for a black spot in the center.
New territory on Titan
The other day I posted a global view of Titan featuring new territory near the north pole. Now the imaging team has released a much higher resolution version of this view.
Many Cassini views of Tethys
Here we bring you fifteen different Cassini views of the same world, a cratered ball of ice called Tethys.
A billion dollars won't get you back to Enceladus or Titan
The Outer Planets Assessment Group or OPAG met two weeks ago, and the presentations from the meeting were recently posted online.
Twilit (probable) lakes near Titan's north pole
This is a cool picture that was released a couple of weeks ago by Cassini's camera team.
Tvashtar erupting -- the movie
I practically fell out of my chair when I saw this movie.
Cassini observes a new face of Iapetus
Cassini has just begun its 44th orbit of Saturn (called Rev 43), and is starting it off with lots of views of famously two-faced Iapetus.
Dione's south pole
Cassini got a nice