Messenger skims past Mercury
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Beams back images of first approach NASA's Messenger yesterday successfully completed its first fly-by of Mercury, passing roughly 124 miles (200km) above the surface of the planet.â¦
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LOS ANGELES -- The NASA spacecraft Cassini, which is carrying a European Space Agency probe, cut off communications with controllers on Monday as it prepared to peer beneath a veil of smog shrouding Saturn&#39;s moon, Titan.
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A car-sized NASA probe zoomed about  126 miles above the rocky, crater-scarred surface of Mercury on  Monday, becoming the first spacecraft since 1975 to fly past  the closest planet to the sun.
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By Tom Koenninger, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Mar. 7--ABOARD ESSAYONS -- A winter mix of rain and snow slashed across the deck of this ponderous ship as she moved downstream on the Columbia River, barely a whisper faster than the current.
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Description: We take a trip out to Saturn&#39;s moon Titan. The Cassini space probe paid a close call to the moon this week, and sent back some pictures of the mist-covered planet that have scientists puzzled.
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The European-designed Huygens spacecraft has begun its 20-day descent to Saturn&#39;s satellite Titan with the aim of penetrating its thick atmosphere and unraveling the mysteries below.
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When the Cassini spacecraft&#39;s Huygens probe parachutes to the surface of the Saturn moon Titan on Jan. 14, it could splash into a lake, burrow into a powdery drift or slam onto rock-hard ice.
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Cassini came within 210,600 miles (339,000 kilometers) of Titan on July 2, days after it entered orbit around Saturn. The spacecraft will fly by Titan at an altitude of 746 miles (1,200 kilometers) on Tuesday
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NASAâs Messenger spacecraft has captured a new view of the planet Mercury.
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Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) has detected what appears to be a massive ethane cloud surrounding Titan's north pole. The cloud might be snowing ethane snowflakes into methane lakes below.
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By Mark Schwanhausser, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep.
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Careful with that antique clock. It could pose a mercury hazard.
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The phenomenon, known as frame-dragging, is quite small, amounting to 6 feet in the distance that satellites, moving at about 18,000 miles per hour, cover in their orbits in a year, but it is within the ability of NASA&#39;s instruments to detect.
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The Cassini spacecraft's close flyby of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan this week revealed clouds that will give clues to its weather, but the pass left scientists still puzzled about its surface.
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Scientists are none the wiser as to what awaits the Huygens space probe on Saturn&#39;s moon Titan when it lands, despite a close pass by its mothership.
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Having lost its companion in a close brush our Milky Way's supermassive black hole, a fast-moving star appears to have had enough. It's fleeing the galaxy.
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The Mercury, which has squandered opportunities throughout the season, has very little wiggle room left. There are a few playoff scenarios remaining, but Phoenix (16-16) probably must win the last two regular