Five can’t miss space events in 2015
There’s always lots of cool stuff going on in the sky, but here are five space and astronomy events in 2015 you simply must not miss. 1. New Horizons: Launched way back in 2006, the New Horizons probe...
View ArticleThree months out from Pluto, New Horizons releases first color photograph
Here’s the first color image of Pluto and its moon, Charon from the New Horizons spacecraft. And if you’re thinking that’s no big deal, here’s the best image we had before, courtesy of the mighty...
View ArticleThere are football-shaped moons whizzing all over the Pluto system
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is fast closing in on Pluto, but just before it arrives the Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered some fascinating details about the dwarf planet and its five moons. And...
View ArticleOur first real look at Pluto, and it’s pretty incredible
A week before it zips by Pluto the New Horizons spacecraft snagged this image, at just over 5 million miles away. This is about the same area of the planet the New Horizons spacecraft will observe next...
View ArticleNew Horizons closing in on Pluto, marking the end of humanity’s first era of...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has spent a decade chasing down Pluto, and it’s now just four days away from a Tuesday morning flyby. At closest approach early Tuesday the spacecraft will come within...
View ArticleUpdates from NASA’s first mission to the last world in the solar system
See below for updates on NASA’s New Horizons mission, which will make its closest approach to Pluto at 6:49 a.m. CT on Tuesday, passing to within 7,800 miles of the mysterious world. Monday 4:00 p.m....
View ArticleFirst scientific results from Pluto flyby
Today NASA scientists discussed the latest results from the New Horizons mission to Pluto. And Pluto and Charon, it turns out, are an oddball pair. Pluto is light, and has a thin atmosphere, Charon is...
View ArticlePluto starts giving up its secrets: Flowing ice, hazy atmosphere and more
Scientists with the New Horizons mission have now downloaded about 5 percent of the data collected by the spacecraft during its Pluto flyby 10 days ago. In a news conference today they discussed some...
View ArticleNew Pluto photos reveal a complex world at the solar system’s edge
This week, for the first time since July, NASA released new images from its Pluto flyby. NASA began downloading uncompressed data earlier this month, and these are the first images from that batch. It...
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