As the New Horizons spacecraft hurtles out towards interstellar space, it has now reached an historical milestone. On April 17,…
In 2017, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) made history with the detection of a mysterious object…
We can thank NASA's New Horizons spacecraft for opening our eyes up to Pluto's complexity. On July 14th, 2015, the…
Scientists have learned a lot about the atmospheres on various worlds in our Solar System simply from planetary sunrises or…
It seems unlikely that an ocean could persist on a world that never gets closer than 30 astronomical units from…
From its current position in the Kuiper Belt, the New Horizons spacecraft recently conducted a parallax experiment that is not…
When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, studying the atmosphere was a key scientific objective. Most of what we…
NASA's New Horizons mission taught us a lot about Pluto, the ice dwarf planet. But the spacecraft sped past Pluto…
Pluto was discovered in 1930 by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. For decades, not much detail was known about the erstwhile planet.…
Pluto is getting some new names. In the past, prior to the New Horizons mission, there wasn't much to name.…