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Neptune's Moon Triton: Summer Sky of Methane and Carbon Monoxide
April 7, 2010 — According to the first ever infrared analysis of the atmosphere of Neptune's moon Triton, summer is in full swing in its southern hemisphere. Astronomers discovered carbon monoxide and made the first ... > full story -
New Hubble Maps of Pluto Show Surface Changes
February 4, 2010 — 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 dark molasses-colored, mottled world ... > full story -
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP Shedding Light On Permanently Shadowed Regions Of The Moon
September 17, 2009 — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched on June 18 of this year, has begun its extensive exploration of the lunar environment and will return more data about the Moon than any previous mission. ... > full story -
Scientists Complete First Geological Global Map Of Jupiter's Satellite Ganymede
September 16, 2009 — Scientists have assembled the first global geological map of Jupiter's moon Ganymede -- the solar system's largest moon -- and in doing so have gathered new evidence into the formation of the large, ... > full story -
Lower Atmosphere Of Pluto Revealed
March 2, 2009 — 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 of methane in the ... > full story -
NASA Prepares For New Juno Mission To Jupiter
November 24, 2008 — 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 spacecraft is placed in a highly ... > full story -
Fifth Dwarf Planet Named Haumea
September 18, 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 9, 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
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