NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Researchers have identified the common thread that determines how aerosols from human activity, like the particles released from forest fires, influence cloud cover and affect climate.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has pinpointed precisely where the icy jets erupt from the surface of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus.

Phoenix has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope.