Pluto’s Atmosphere May Finally Be Starting to Collapse
Pluto’s orbit around the Sun is a long, elliptical journey that lasts 248 Earth years. Right now, Pluto…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up Nearly 6 Billion Miles from Earth After Almost a Year in Hibernation
NEED TO KNOW The spacecraft emerged from a 321-day hibernation 5.9 billion miles from Earth, with signals taking…
Pluto flyby mission wakes up after long sleep nearly 6 billion miles from Earth
A groundbreaking mission that explored Pluto and distant solar system objects in unprecedented detail has awakened from its…
11 Years After Historic Flyby, Scientists Discover Giant Landslides on Pluto
In July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft gave us our first look at Pluto’s surface in spectacular detail.…
Weird Mountains on Pluto’s Largest Moon Charon Reveals a Surprising Past
The solar system’s icy moons are natural labs for astronomy’s most fascinating discoveries. And Charon, Pluto’s largest moon,…
NASA’s New Horizons Wakes Up From Hibernation Beyond Pluto, More Than 10 Billion Kilometers from Earth
Artist’s rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto and its three moons. Credit: NASA. Whomst has awakened…
New Horizons Wakes Up, Prepares for ‘Termination Shock’
NASA’s Pluto probe has woken up and is on its way to slipping out of the sun’s…
NASA’s Pluto Probe Is Finally Approaching a Major Boundary of Deep Space
In late June, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft woke up from a nearly year-long slumber at a distance of…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes from Hibernation in Good Health
Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good…
APOD: 2026 June 6 – Charon: Moon of Pluto
APOD: 2026 June 6 – Charon: Moon of Pluto Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or…
Yes, Gravity Made These Space Snowmen. No, It’s Not That Simple
Arrokoth is a reddish, snowman-shaped asteroid in the Kuiper Belt and the most distant object explored by a…
New Horizons 3.0 expansion has arrived earlier than expected
For a number of very obvious reasons, we don’t want to roll back the clock to early 2020.…