New ScienceCast Video – Countdown to Pluto
A new ScienceCast video details what NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft might find when it reaches Pluto next January. One of the fastest spacecraft ever built…
A new ScienceCast video details what NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft might find when it reaches Pluto next January. One of the fastest spacecraft ever built…
Kerberos and Styx have been officially recognized as the names for the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is announcing…
New computer simulations suggest that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will encounter many small satellites as it nears the binary planet Pluto-Charon in 2015. In 2015,…
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers discovered a fifth moon, designated P5, orbiting Pluto that is irregular in shape and 6 to 15 miles across….