Washington: Researchers built an ultra-high vacuum system that simulates conditions in space, then performed the first-ever reported measurement of the water photodesorption cross section from an actual lunar sample. The research at the Georgia Institute of Technology indicates that ultraviolet … read more
Washington: The Hubble Space Telescope Time Allocation Committee has recommended using Hubble to search for an object the Pluto-bound NASA New Horizons mission could visit after its flyby of Pluto in July 2015. The planned search will involve targeting a … read more
Washington: A new research has discovered a mysterious blocks of ice as tall as city skyscrapers and as wide as the island of Manhattan at the very bottom of the ice sheet in Greenland. Apparently water beneath the ice sheets … read more
Washington: A new study by NASA has revealed that there might be cracks in Pluto’s giant moon Charon, which could indicate that it once had a subterranean ocean of liquid water. Alyssa Rhoden of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in … read more
Researchers at Northwestern University have found evidence for a massive reservoir of water deep within the Earth’s mantle. The reservoir, which is said to be three times the volume of the oceans on the surface, is contained within highly-pressurized rock … read more