The Cassini spacecraft has captured a striking image of Saturn's moons Dione and Tethys passing each other across the planet's ring system. The larger moon in...

"The Cassini spacecraft has spied the tallest mountains yet seen on Titan, Saturn's major moon. The range is about 150km long (93 miles), 30km (19 miles) wide...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4244451.stm The Hubble Space Telescope and a mission to explore Jupiter's moons look to be the biggest casualties in...

Taken from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4117861.stm The Universe still produces massive newborn galaxies full of baby stars, despite being billions of...

The warm dust around the star is thought to be from recent collisions An unusually thick ring of dust around another star could hold clues about planet...

"A rare astronomical event has allowed scientists to show that Pluto's moon - known as Charon - has no atmosphere. This could dismiss claims Charon is a...

"A large telescope that will scan the entire visible sky every three nights is to be built on a mountain in Chile. The 8.4m (28ft) Large Synoptic Survey...

Venus is an enigma, wrapped in a mystery, inside a dense cloud of carbon dioxide (CO2). But a suite of orbiting instruments is proving its able to...

"Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft is providing an unprecedented insight into one of the many asteroids that cross into Earth's neighbourhood. Data from the mission...

Mars Express has become the first spacecraft to detect reserves of water ice deep beneath the surface of the Red Planet, experts have announced. The Marsis...

Astronomers have spotted a space oddity in Earth's neighbourhood: a dead star with some unusual characteristics. The object - known as a neutron star - was...

Astronomers have discovered the fastest rotating object for its size in the Solar System. The Kuiper Belt Object 2003 EL61, discovered in July, rotates once...

Mars is set for a close encounter with Earth, approaching to within 69.4 million km (43.1 million miles) of our planet in the early hours of Sunday. With good...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4063181.stm Data from Nasa's Mars rover Opportunity shows its unique landing site is a prime spot for a return mission to...

Space scientists say their discoveries about Saturn's moon Enceladus are stunning, if just a little baffling. Using the instrument-packed Cassini probe, they...

The particles that make up Saturn's rings are more like "fluffy" snowballs than hard ice cubes, as some scientists had previously described them. And these...

"Scientists in Houston, Texas, are "excited and awed" after opening the Stardust capsule which returned from space with samples of cometary dust. The lead...

Astronomers have discovered that the planet Uranus has a blue ring - only the second found in the Solar System. More at...

"An international team of astronomers has found the smallest yet Earth-like planet outside our Solar System. The new planet has five times the Earth's mass...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4264603.stm US astronomers say they have found the smallest planet orbiting outside our Solar System to date. The new...