NASA's Curiosity rover detects organic matter on Mars

National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mars rover Curiosity has made the first definitive detection of organic molecules, the building blocks of all known forms of terrestrial life, on the......

Frozen Martian glaciers could cover red planet with 1 metre of ice

Image: Portions of the Martian surface shot by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Photograph: NASA Mars has belts of glaciers consisting......

Revealed: An ocean buried in Jupiter's moon Ganymede

American space agency NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found strong evidence of a massive saltwater ocean under the icy crust of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede that could potentially support......

Venus could get swallowed!

Giant perturbations called hot flow anomalies in the solar wind near Venus can swallow the entire planet, scientists say. Researchers recently discovered that a common space weather phenomenon......