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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent a status update home to its handlers here on Earth, indicating that the probe survived its historic encounter with Pluto this morning (July 14), and that reams of amazing data shou...

Astronomers have used the ESO 3.6-metre telescope to identify a planet just like Jupiter orbiting at the same distance from a Sun-like star, HIP 11915. According to current theories, the formation of Jupiter-mass planets...

Even if the decade-old flyby spacecraft could have used higher frequency microwaves to return data, large improvements might not have followed --

On Sunday, 12 July 2015, OSIRIS, the scientific imaging system on board ESA's spacecraft Rosetta, took a glance towards the rim of our Solar System. Instead of studying comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as in the past 15 m...

On Jan. 19, 2006, NASA launched a space probe the size of a golf cart on a mission to explore the farthest reaches of the solar system; its destination was the Kuiper Belt, a frigid region beyond the planets, populated w...

He calls himself an "accessory" to the demotion of Pluto in an interview with NBC News' Lester Holt. Tyson uses Pluto's mass and its orbit crossing with that of Neptune as two major sticking point for classifying it as a...

The first close-up photo of Pluto revealed a mountain range rising 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) into Pluto's sky, along with a surface just 100 million years old at the most. A view of the dwarf planet's big moon Charon di...

The next three crew members bound for the International Space Station are set to launch Wednesday, July 22. NASA Television will provide coverage of the launch and the crew's arrival at the orbiting laboratory less than ...

We haven't even seen all the data from the first flyby, but New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern is already thinking about an encore Pluto mission. The post Alan Stern’s Pluto Encore: Words and Sounds appeare...

Today, for the first time, we have received our first looks at Pluto and its moon Charon up close! And the pictures are truly amazing. First, here's Charon: Wow! Charon is 1,207 kilometers (750 miles) in diameter, to giv...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Remarkable new details of Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 miles (466,000 kilomete...

New close-up images of a region near Pluto's equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body....

In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Alessondra" Sondy" Springmann: A journeywoman planetary scientist who stumbled into astronomy in college and followed a winding road that has led her to NASA'...

NASA unveiled the first image from New Horizons' closest approach to the icy dwarf and Charon at a press conference on July 15th, 2015.

Icy mountains on Pluto and a new, crisp view of its largest moon, Charon, are among the several discoveries announced Wednesday by the NASA's New Horizons team, just one day after the spacecraft's first ever Pluto flyby.

Space.com's Calla Cofield talks to NASA's planetary science division director Jim Green about the impact of the New Horizons' mission and whether any new missions to the icy dwarf are planned.

Phew! Our eyes and thoughts have been cast so far out into the outer reaches of the solar system following New Horizons and Pluto this week, that we're just now getting to the astronomical action going on in our own back...

The U.S. Air Force launched the 10th satellite in its current-generation series of positioning, navigation and timing satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 roc...

The Solar Impulse 2's attempt to circumnavigate the world has been put on hold. The solar-powered airplane is grounded in Hawaii after sustaining battery damage during its flight from Japan.

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