After years of speculation, planetary scientists have now confirmed that Titan has at least one lake made of liquid ethane.

Phoenix Mars Lander drills for ice.

Three teams suggest that a huge object slammed into Mars, giving the planet an unusually dualistic topography.

Phoenix Lander gets first close-up of Martian soil.

A European astronomy group beamed a video of a Doritos sacrifice to the god of salsa at a possible alien race in a star system associated with the Big Dipper.

Instrument succeeds in capturing first soil sample, allowing Mars Phoenix Lander team to begin scientific studies.

New photos of collisions in one of Saturn’s rings provide a local lab for understanding the interactions that might shape young solar system formation.

Astronomers have discovered the smallest planet known that is beyond the solar system and orbits an ordinary parent body.

In its seventh day after successfully landing on the Red Planet, the Phoenix Lander digs its first trench and is ready to start its ice-hunting.

The good news is a tentative sighting of ice by the Mars Phoenix Lander. The bad news is the discovery of a glitch in the system that will analyze soil samples.

After a day’s delay, the robotic arm on the Mars Phoenix Lander is free of its shackles and is preparing to dig for ice.

Water believed to flow on the Red Planet would have been too salty to foster life, scientists suggest.

A camera on a Mars-orbiting spacecraft caught an image of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suspended from its parachute just before it descended onto the Red Planet’s northern plains on May 25.

The first close-up color images of the northern arctic circle on the Red Planet were recorded by the Mars Phoenix Lander spacecraft only a few hours after its flawless descent at 7:38 p.m. EDT, May 25. The detailed images suggest ice lies beneath the hard soil.