Together, the space probes Dawn and New Horizons have been in flight for a collective 17 years. One remained close…
The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the best observatories humanity has. It's been operating for nearly 25 years in…
NASA's Dawn spacecraft experienced technical problems in the past week that will force it to arrive at dwarf planet Ceres…
Leaving aside the complications of space treaties, a new video lays out another case for why you wouldn't want to…
Host: Fraser Cain Guests: David Dickinson, Matthew Francis, Casey Dreier, Sondy Springmann (more…)
It looks like Vulcan was not the logical choice for the International Astronomical Union when it came to naming Pluto's…
Artist's impression of the surface of Makemake, a dwarf planet beyond Pluto (ESO/L. Calçada/Nick Risinger) It turns out there's no…
Dawn image of Vesta showing its nearly circumferential equatorial grooves (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) Even though NASA's Dawn spacecraft has departed Vesta the…
A "speckle image" reconstruction of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon (Gemini Observatory/NSF/NASA/AURA) Real planet, dwarf planet, KBO, who cares?…
In 2006, the IAU voted to remove Pluto from the list of planets in the Solar System. Instead, Pluto, and…