Icy mountains on Pluto and a new, crisp view of its largest moon, Charon, are among…
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NASA Pluto New Horizons July 13 Media Briefing Time Change, Media Center Open
NASA will provide comprehensive television, Internet and social media coverage this week of the agency’s New…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Stays the Course to Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is getting a final “all clear” as it speeds closer to its…
NASA’s Chandra Captures X-Ray Echoes Pinpointing Distant Neutron Star
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered the largest and brightest set of rings from…
NASA’s Hubble Telescope Detects ‘Sunscreen’ Layer on Distant Planet
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a stratosphere, one of the primary layers of Earth’s atmosphere,…
NASA’s Hubble Finds Pluto’s Moons Tumbling in Absolute Chaos
If you lived on one of Pluto’s moons, you might have a hard time determining when,…
NASA’s Europa Mission Begins with Selection of Science Instruments
NASA has selected nine science instruments for a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, to investigate whether…
NASA’s WISE Spacecraft Discovers Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe
A remote galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered…
NASA’s New Horizons Detects Surface Features, Possible Polar Cap on Pluto
For the first time, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions…