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Weekly Space Hangout – April 17, 2015: Amy Shira Teitel and “Breaking the Chains of Gravity”
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Amy Shira Teitel (@astVintageSpace) discussing space history and her new book Breaking the Chains…
The Moment We’ve been Waiting For: First New Images of Pluto from New Horizons
Here we go! New Horizons is now on approach and today – on the anniversary of Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh’s…
The Solar System’s ‘Yearbook’ is About to Get Filled In
Lined up like familiar faces in your high school yearbook, here are images of the 33 largest objects in the…
‘Death Star’ Ocean? Seven Moons That Could Host Huge Hidden Liquid Reservoirs
Could there be an ocean hidden somewhere in that Death Star-like picture? This is an image of Mimas, a moon…
Watch Pluto and Charon Engage in Their Orbital Dance
Now here's something I guarantee you've never seen before: a video of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon…
Where Exactly Is Pluto? Pinpoint Precision Needed For New Horizons Mission
When you have a spacecraft that takes the better part of a decade to get to its destination, it's really,…
New Horizons Wakes Up for the Summer
While many kids in the U.S. are starting their school summer vacations, New Horizons is about to get back to work! Speeding…
An Ocean On Pluto’s Moon? Hopeful Scientists Will Keep An Eye Out For Cracks
It's a lot of speculation right now, but the buzz in a new NASA study is Pluto's largest moon (Charon)…
A Crash Put Pluto’s Moons Into Odd Orbits: Study
A smash-up that created Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely sprayed debris four billion years ago that formed the genesis of…
New Horizons: I Spy Pluto and Charon!
The New Horizons spacecraft is still about 880 million kilometers (550 million miles) from Pluto, but on July 1 and…