In 1930, American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, which was initially hailed as the "tenth planet." For decades, it was considered a distant outpost of our solar system, orbiting beyond ...
Charon, discovered in 1978, is a fascinating celestial body that shares a unique relationship with Pluto. Unlike typical ...
This is our second dark realm: The Kuiper Belt. Triton is thought to have started life out here, along with hundreds of other ...
The Wow! signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected only once on August 15, 1977, by the Big Ear radio telescope.
The Europa Clipper orbiter mission will travel over 2.9 billion km to reach Jupiter’s moon by April 2030. It will probe ...
Europa Clipper launched on Monday, Oct. 14 atop a SpaceX rocket to begin a 1.8-billion-mile journey to the Jovian System to ...
New Horizons followed five failed proposals to send hardware to Pluto. Process that sculpts “penitentes” here could be ...
The next year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto and its moon Charon and revealed all manner of wonders, including ...
In the coming weeks, NASA's Europa Clipper will take off on a long journey to Jupiter's moon Europa. The icy moon could ...
Listen to Story Webb observations were build on data obtained from NASA's New Horizons mission The spacecraft flew by Charon during its visit to the Pluto system The new observations of Charon help ...
Anchor] The origin of primitive celestial bodies, including the solar system, is one of the mysteries that mankind must solve ...
Charon, discovered in 1978, has the distinction of being the solar system's largest moon relative in size to the planet it ...