Thanks to NASA’s Asteroid Data Hunter contest, the public can play with a software application that has the potential to increase the number of new asteroids discovered. The application is based on an algorithm which proved a 15% increase in positively identifying asteroids between Mars and Jupiter during testing. You don’t have to be a NASA scientist to work the application - it can be used by amateur astronomers and c...

Dropping a robot onto a comet was arguably one of the most audacious space achievements of recent times, but one concept mission being studied by NASA could top even that. Scientists are proposing to send a robot submarine to the oily seas of Saturn's moon Titan. The seas are filled with hydrocarbons like methane and ethane, kept in their liquid states by an average temperature of -180°C.