Astronomers Contemplate Icy Volcanoes in Far Places
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A discovery now has some astronomers entertaining visions of icy volcanoes roiling on some of the tiny worlds circling beyond Neptune, at least at one time.
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NASA and university astronomers are eagerly awaiting  the launch of a&nbsp;space probe bound to collide with a comet and give  researchers a glimpse inside the solar system's&nbsp;icy  wanderers.&nbsp;
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A U.S. scientist says the discovery of interconnected lakes miles under Antarctic ice might be one of the most important scientific finds in recent years.
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Volcanologists studying erupted rocks say they have new insights into what might trigger explosive eruptions.
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Scientists are now eyeing dust clouds as possible suspects in transcontinental spread of diseases.
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This summer, NASA will launch a robotic probe to visit two stange and giant asteroids--one is covered with ice while the other may have been blasted by an ancient supernova.  The tales these asteroids tell may reveal the true beginnings of our solar system.
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SAN DIEGO&nbsp;-- Strange objects in faraway space known to astronomers only as Giant Galactic Blobs have, upon close inspection, become a lot&nbsp;weirder.
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[Technology India] Washington, Sep 16 : Scientists have proposed the building of a telescope in the Antarctic, claiming that the calm air above the icy landscape makes it the best place on Earth for astronomy.
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Scientists try to figure out how far off the next ice age is.
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For the first time in the history of astronomy, scientists are about to glimpse the mysterious surface of Titan, Saturn&#39;s haze-shrouded moon.
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Data sent back by the Huygens space  probe from the Saturnian moon Titan show a frozen, orange world  shrouded in a methane-rich haze with dark ice rocks dotting a  riverbed-like surface the consistency of wet sand, scientists  said on Saturday.
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The solar system&#39;s smoggiest orb appears to have landscapes both foreign and familiar, say geologists who are sorting through the first up-close peek at Saturn&#39;s planet-sized moon Titan.
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This summer, NASA will launch a robotic probe to visit two stange and giant asteroids -- one is covered with ice while the other may have been blasted by an ancient supernova. The tales these asteroids tell may reveal the true beginnings of our solar system.
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The surface of Saturn&#39;s moon Titan may be covered by thick drifts of combustible organic &quot;snow&quot; floating on lakes of liquid methane or water and ammonia ice flows, NASA (news - web sites) scientists said on Friday.
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ASTRONOMERS manning a radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, believe they may have found proof that extra-terrestrials exist. The astronomers reported in the New Scientist magazine this week that they have
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Scientists have high hopes for a new mission to investigate colossal explosions on the surface of the Sun.
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Signs of ancient eruptions indicate a planet geologically active and may suggest presence of simple life forms. By Peter N. Spotts | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.