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New Hubble Maps of Pluto Show Surface Changes
NASA has released the most
detailed set of images ever
taken of the distant dwarf
planet Pluto. The images
taken by NASA's Hubble Space
Telescope show an icy and
... > full story
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP Shedding Light On Permanently Shadowed Regions Of The Moon
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance
Orbiter, launched on June 18
of this year, has begun its
extensive exploration of the
lunar environment and will ... > full story
Lower Atmosphere Of Pluto Revealed
Using ESO's Very Large
Telescope, astronomers have
gained valuable new insights
about the atmosphere of the
dwarf planet Pluto. The
scientists found
unexpectedly large amounts
... > full story
NASA Prepares For New Juno Mission To Jupiter
NASA is officially moving
forward on a mission to
conduct an unprecedented,
in-depth study of Jupiter.
Called Juno, the mission
will be the first in which a
... > full story
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Fifth Dwarf Planet Named Haumea
September 22, 2008 — The International Astronomical Union has announced that the object previously known as 2003 EL61 is to be classified as the fifth dwarf planet in the Solar System and named Haumea. This now means ... > full story -
Astronomers Find Unusual New Denizen Of The Solar System
August 19, 2008 — A "minor planet" with the prosaic name 2006 SQ372 is just over two billion miles from Earth, a bit closer than the planet Neptune. But this lump of ice and rock is beginning the return leg of a ... > full story -
'Plutoid' Chosen As Name For Solar System Objects Like Pluto
June 11, 2008 — The International Astronomical Union has decided on the term plutoid as a name for dwarf planets like Pluto at a meeting of its Executive Committee in Oslo. Almost two years after the IAU General ... > full story -
Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Sees Changes In Jupiter System
October 10, 2007 — The voyage of NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft through the Jupiter system earlier this year provided a bird's-eye view of a dynamic planet that has changed since the last close-up looks by ... > full story -
Sign Of 'Embryonic Planets' Forming In Nearby Stellar Systems
October 2, 2007 — Astronomers are pointing to three nearby stars they say may hold "embryonic planets" -- a missing link in planet-formation theories. As scientists try to piece together how our own planet came to be, ... > full story -
Pioneering NASA Spacecraft Mark Thirty Years Of Flight
August 30, 2007 — NASA's two venerable Voyager spacecraft are celebrating three decades of flight as they head toward interstellar space. Their ongoing odysseys mark an unprecedented and historic accomplishment. ... > full story -
Charon: An Ice Machine In The Ultimate Deep Freeze
July 21, 2007 — Frigid geysers spewing material up through cracks in the crust of Pluto's companion Charon, and recoating parts of its surface in ice crystals, could be making this distant world into the equivalent ... > full story -
Dwarf Planet Eris Is More Massive Than Pluto
June 18, 2007 — Aptly named after the Greek goddess of conflict, the icy dwarf planet, Eris, has rattled the general model of our solar system. The object was discovered by astronomer Mike Brown of Caltech in the ... > full story -
Pluto-Bound New Horizons Provides New Look At Jupiter System
May 1, 2007 — NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has provided new data on the Jupiter system -- stunning scientists with never-before-seen perspectives of the giant planet's atmosphere, rings, moons and ... > full story -
Rosetta And New Horizons Watch Jupiter
April 2, 2007 — ESA's Rosetta and NASA's New Horizons are working together to observe Jupiter. A preliminary analysis of the data from Rosetta's Alice ultraviolet spectrometer indicates that the data quality is ... > full story
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