NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Reveals First Close-Up View of Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft shows a close-up image of an equatorial region near the base of Pluto’s bright heart-shaped feature, revealing a mountain range with…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft shows a close-up image of an equatorial region near the base of Pluto’s bright heart-shaped feature, revealing a mountain range with…
Using the ESO 3.6-meter telescope, an international team of astronomers has identified a planet just like Jupiter orbiting at the same distance from the Sun-like…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has completed its flyby of Pluto, collecting so much data it will take 16 months to send it all back to…
This short NASA video shows New Horizons’ view of Pluto during the final week of its almost 10-year, three-billion-mile journey towards the dwarf planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93SkmOj06Xo
These new false color images from the New Horizons Spacecraft reveal that Pluto and Charon are truly complex worlds. New Horizons has obtained impressive new…
Richard Binzel, a New Horizons mission co-investigator, takes time to answer questions about New Horizons unprecedented view of Pluto and how the new images may…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has only just reached Pluto, but it has already solved a decades-long debated question about the dwarf planet: How big is…
After three billion miles and a decade-long journey through our solar system, NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has finally reached Pluto. New Horizons made its closest…
As this new image from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft shows, Titan is a “large” moon but it is still dwarfed by Saturn. Although Titan (3200 miles…
As the New Horizons Spacecraft speeds closer to its July 14 flyby of Pluto, it’s continuing to producing images and record data on an icy…
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the ghostly shells of galaxy ESO 381-12, set against a backdrop of distant galaxies. The…
This newly released Hubble image shows the Quintuplet Cluster, which is located 100 light-years from the center of our galaxy. Although this cluster of stars…
In just a few days New Horizons will flyby Pluto at 30,800 miles (49,600 kilometers) per hour with seven science instruments busily gathering data and…
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and other satellites have recorded a record flare from a black hole at the center of the distant galaxy 3C…
The latest image from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager reveals signs of geology on Pluto. The above image was taken on July 9, 2015, …
A team of scientists has discovered a black hole in the early universe that grew much faster than its host galaxy, resulting in a gigantic…
Astronomers used the Venus transit to make measurements of how the Venusian atmosphere absorbs different kinds of light, revealing clues to what elements are layered…
Since June 15, astronomers have been monitoring the ongoing light show detected by NASA’s Swift satellite. This new outburst is from V404 Cygni, a binary…