New Horizons Passes Pluto After Historic 3 Billion Mile Journey
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750…
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NASA Pluto New Horizons July 13 Media Briefing Time Change
NASA will provide comprehensive television, Internet and social media coverage this week of the agency’s New Horizons spacecraft historic July 14 flyby of Pluto. The time…
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20 Springtime Views of the Sun Taken by SOHO
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has been watching the Sun for almost 20 years. In that time it has seen solar activity ramp up and…
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New Image of Pluto Reveals Planetary Geology
It began as a point of light. Then, it evolved into a fuzzy orb. Now – in its latest portrait from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft –…
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Distant Black Hole Wave Twists Like Giant Whip
Fast-moving magnetic waves emanating from a distant supermassive black hole undulate like a whip whose handle is being shaken by a giant hand, according to a…
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NASA Missions Have Their Eyes Peeled on Pluto
What’s icy, has “wobbly” potato-shaped moons, and is the world’s best-known dwarf planet? The answer is Pluto, and NASA’s New Horizons is speeding towards the edge…
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NASA Selects Astronauts for First U.S. Commercial Space Flights
NASA has selected four astronauts to train and prepare for commercial spaceflights that will return American launches to U.S. soil and further open up low-Earth orbit…
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A Galaxy’s Ghostly Shells
The ghostly shells of galaxy ESO 381-12 are captured here in a new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, set against a backdrop of distant…
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Geologically Diverse Regions on Mars
This colourful image resembles an abstract watercolour, but it is in fact a colour-coded topographic map of one of the most geologically diverse regions on Mars.…
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Gaia Measures the Density of Stars Across the Sky
This image, based on housekeeping data from ESA’s Gaia satellite, is no ordinary depiction of the heavens. While the image portrays the outline of our Galaxy,…
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