Humans have been sending spacecraft to other planets, as well as asteroid and comets, for decades. But rarely have any…
APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, LAUREL, MD - With this morning’s (July 14) do or die flyby of Pluto by NASA’s New…
Watch Pluto grow in this series of photos taken during New Horizons' approach Whew! We're out of the woods. On schedule…
Plutophiles everywhere rejoice. On the eve of history’s first ever up close flyby of mysterious Pluto on Tuesday morning July…
Chasms, craters, and a dark north polar region are revealed in this image of Pluto’s largest moon Charon taken by…
Countdown to discovery! Not since Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune in 1989 have we flung a probe into the frozen…
Dr. Mike Brown is a professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech. He's best known as the man who killed Pluto,…
A storm is brewing, a battle of words and a war of the worlds. The Earth is not at risk. It is…
The self-professed “Pluto Killer” is at it again. Dr. Michael Brown is now reminiscing about the good old days when…
Sometimes when you stare at something long enough, you begin to see things. This is not the case with optical…