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6 TYPES OF PLANETS, FROM GAS GIANTS TO WATER WORLDS
The category of rocky planets, also known as terrestrial planets, includes Earth, as well as Mercury, Venus and Mars in our own solar system... READ MORE›
NASA TEAMS UP WITH RUSSIA TO BUILD SPACE STATION AROUND THE MOON
Scientists will look to the International Space Station, including how it was built and how it is operated, while designing the deep space gateway, NASA said... READ MORE›
HELP NASA NAME A DISTANT WORLD IN KUIPER BELT
On New Year's Day 2019, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will fly past a small, frozen object in the Kuiper Belt... READ MORE›
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RAW DATA THE WIDENING WORLD OF HAND-PICKED TRUTHS
But presenting people with the best available science doesn't seem to change many minds... READ MORE›
IMAGES REVEAL ICE MOUNTAINS ON PLUTO
Pluto has mountains made of ice that are as high as those in the Rockies images from the New Horizons probe reveal... READ MORE›
JAPAN TESTS INNOVATIVE MAGNETIC TETHER FOR SLOWING SPACE JUNK
Japan launches a cargo ship carrying a space junk collector designed to gather debris in space... READ MORE›
EYES ON PLUTO FOR HISTORIC ENCOUNTER
New horizons probe eyes pluto for historic encounter... READ MORE›
EARTH-LIKE WORLD COULD BE 'MOST IMPORTANT PLANET FOUND OUTSIDE SOLAR SYSTEM'
A rocky Earth-sized planet that circles a small, nearby star could be the most important world ever found beyond the solar system, astronomers say... READ MORE›
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED SO FAR?
New Horizons has provided more accurate information on the size and scope of Pluto... READ MORE›
WHY DID PLUTO GET KICKED OUT OF THE PLANET CLUB?
When Nasa's New Horizons mission was launched at the start of 2006 Pluto was a planet but it's not any more... READ MORE›
DWARF PLANET MAKEMAKE HAS ITS OWN TINY MOON
NASA's Hubble space telescope has revealed a tiny moon orbiting Pluto's dwarf planet neighbor Makemake... READ MORE›
MEET THE LARGEST UNMANNED WORLD IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
It may be one of the darkest dwarf planets in our solar system, Barentsen said... READ MORE›
CHINESE MOON PROBE SUCCESSFULLY RETURNS TO EARTH
Please read our An unmanned Chinese probe successfully returned to earth yesterday after circumnavigating the moon, bolstering the country's status as a space power... READ MORE›
AMERICA STILL NEEDS SPACE TRAVEL: MARK KELLY
Space exploration has yielded enormous practical benefits for Americans... READ MORE›
NEW DWARF PLANET DISCOVERED FAR BEYOND PLUTO
It joins a growing list of dwarf planets known to populate the solar system Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, Eris and -- most famous of all -- Pluto... READ MORE›
A NASA SPACECRAFT IS ORBITING A MYSTERIOUS DWARF PLANET
Ceres becomes first dwarf planet to be orbited, as Nasas Dawn prepares to explore mysterious worlds surface... READ MORE›
DWARF PLANET CERES BOASTS ORGANIC COMPOUNDS, SUGGESTING POSSIBILITY OF LIFE
Based on the location and type of organics found on Ceres, scientists ruled out the possibility they were deposited by a crashing asteroid or comet... READ MORE›
JAPANESE SPACE EXPLORER TO BLOW CRATER IN ASTEROID
Japanese space explorer to blow crater in asteroid AP 4 16 a... READ MORE›
CONTEST BEGINS TO ALLOW THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO NAME EXOPLANETS AND STARS
Name the ExoWorlds Contest begins to allow the public to name exoplanets and stars... READ MORE›
MEETING ALIENS: WHY WE MUST NOT SEND HUMANS TO MARS
Even exploration on other planets, such as Mars, can help us tackle climate change and carbon capture on Earth... READ MORE›
CRATER-LESS PLUTO'S ICY PEAKS HIGH AS ROCKIES, CHARON'S CANYONS DEEPER THAN EARTH'S
New Horizons already is 1 million miles 1.61 million km beyond the dwarf planet, and 3 billion miles 4.83 million km from Earth... READ MORE›
STARGAZERS STUNNED BY PLUTO ICE, TERRAIN, SURFACE'S COLOR EXTRAVAGANZA
WASHINGTON - Pluto contains a rich variety of colors on its surface, according to observations out Thursday from NASA's New Horizons probe that stunned astronomers... READ MORE›
PLUTO LAND OF HAZY BLUE SKIES, RED ICE, CONSTANT TWILIGHT, NASA PROBE FINDS
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft discovered Pluto's blue sky during the historic flyby of the icy dwarf planet in July... READ MORE›
IS PLANET 9 A PLANET? A SIMPLE FLOW CHART HELPS WITH A TOUGH QUESTION
Still, people gravitated towards the news, and were quick to proclaim a new entry into our planetary solar system... READ MORE›
CLOCKED AT 126,000 KPH, STADIUM-SIZE ASTEROID TO SHAVE PAST EARTH, MOON ON HALLOWEEN
Clocked at 126 000 kph stadium-size asteroid to shave past earth moon on halloween... READ MORE›
NASA SPACECRAFT SET TO PULL BACK CURTAIN ON DWARF PLANET PLUTO
When New Horizons rocketed away from Cape Canaveral on Jan. 19, 2006, Pluto was the ninth planet in our solar system... READ MORE›
NASA SPACECRAFT MAKES HISTORIC FLYBY OF PLUTO
The New Horizons mission launched in 2006, the same year that Pluto was downgraded to dwarf planet status due to the celestial body's small size... READ MORE›
CONDITIONS ON PLUTO INCREDIBLY HAZY WITH FLOWING ICE
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft now 7.5 million miles beyond Pluto has detected layers of haze stretching 100 miles 160 kilometers into the atmosphere much higher than anticipated... READ MORE›
IF MISSION GETS EXTENDED, NEW HORIZONS WILL BOLDLY VENTURE BEYOND PLUTO
Just seven months after New Horizons rocketed away from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2006, the International Astronomical Union declassified Pluto as the ninth planet for technical reasons... READ MORE›
SPACE PROBE ORBITS A DWARF PLANET FOR FIRST TIME
Space probe Dawn began orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres on March 6 on a voyage of discovery into the solar system's main asteroid belt, NASA said... READ MORE›
DATA FROM PLUTO AND ITS MOON REVEAL STRANGE NEW WORLDS TO SCIENTISTS
After looking at just 1 per cent of Pluto's surface the scientists found mountains of ice towering 3350 metres above the dwarf planet... READ MORE›
EUROPE IS SPENDING A FORTUNE TO LOOK FOR ALIENS
The program was green-lit Tuesday by a committee of the European Space Agency, an intergovernmental agency dedicated to the exploration of space... READ MORE›
INCREDIBLE FIREBALL METEOR LIGHTS UP THE NIGHT SKY IN US
Witnesses reported seeing a fireball meteor streaking across the sky in parts of the US... READ MORE›