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…
Near-Earth asteroid not an asteroid at all
Anyone can mistake an identity, even astronomers. On August 28, 2025, researchers aimed their equipment towards an area…
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.…
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…
James Webb telescope may have discovered a never-before-seen substance on Pluto and Titan
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NASA’s New Horizons Reveals a Hidden Interstellar Slowdown at the Solar System’s Edge
For obvious reasons, the Sun’s influence weakens as you get closer to the edge of the solar system.…
Earth Could Survive the Sun’s Bloated Death Stage, But There’s a Catch
In about five billion years, the Sun will reach the end of its life and grow to hundreds…
‘The fate of Earth depends on a delicate balance’: Our planet may survive the death of the sun after all, n…
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Scientists Think Uranus and Neptune May Not Be the Ice Giants We Imagined
Before the Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus and Neptune, these two distant planets were thought to be cold,…
Scientists Just Found All 5 Genetic “Letters” of DNA and RNA on an Asteroid
Ryugu sample in its return capsule. Credit: JAXA The discovery of all five nucleobases on Ryugu strengthens the…