December 5, 2003; NASA Scientists Use Radar to Detect Asteroid Force

October 31, 2003; The Curious Tale of Asteroid Hermes

May 9, 2003; Your Name Could Make a 'Deep Impact' on a Comet - put it on our Deep Impact spacecraft.

April 28, 2003; Titan Reveals a Surface Dominated by Icy Bedrock - findings are potentially relevant to the NASA/ESA Cassini mission/ Huygens probe.

March 10, 2003; The flight team for our Jupiter-orbiting Galileo spacecraft ceased operations on Friday, Feb. 28 after a final playback of scientific data from the robotic explorer's tape recorder.

March 10, 2003; The venerable Pioneer 10 spacecraft has sent its last signal to Earth.

March 10, 2003; Using a sensitive new imaging instrument on our Cassini spacecraft, researchers have discovered a large and surprisingly dense gas cloud, sharing an orbit with Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

March 10, 2003; A just-released map from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, has provided the most telling visible evidence to date of the impact that is believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs.

February 22, 2003; NASA Solves Half-Century Old Moon Mystery.

January 8, 2003; First Neptune Trojan Discovered.

December 20, 2002; Bright patches of methane have been detected swirling around the southern pole of Titan, settling a longstanding question as to whether Saturn's largest moon possesses clouds.

December 14, 2002; Featherweight Jupiter Moon Is Likely a Jumble of Pieces.

December 14, 2002; The bombardment of comets and asteroids on early Mars may have caused cycles of rain that led to global flooding and the formation of Mars' river valleys.

December 14, 2002; Evidence of massive amounts of water ice in the soil near Mars' north polar cap, even more than previously found in the South.

December 14, 2002; Goldmine yields clues for life on Mars.

November 7, 2002; Galileo had a little trouble during its pass by Amalthea, but managed to survive, and will hopefully be returning more science data soon.

November 5, 2002; An image of asteroid Annefrank, taken by our Stardust spacecraft, is now available.

November 4, 2002; A successful test of the camera on our Cassini spacecraft has produced images of Saturn 20 months before the spacecraft arrives at that planet.

October 31, 2002; A new moon of the planet Uranus has been discovered, bringing the total of known moons to 21.