Kuiper belt
January 1, 2019
LAUREL, Md. — Wow, what a way to ring in the new year. As the world celebrated the start of 2019, scientists with NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft partied […]
May 21, 2018
The solar system just got a bit stranger. As astronomers continue their ongoing quest to find the elusive Planet Nine, a team found a space rock that […]
May 8, 2017
Humanity’s first up-close look at Pluto was so intriguing that some researchers want to go back and spend a lot more time studying the icy world. […]
March 4, 2017
According to this new definition, if Pluto becomes a planet, then our moon will too! Way back in 2015, NASA’s New Horizon’s mission flew by the […]
January 18, 2017
Members of NASA’s New Horizons team will discuss the achievements of the first encounter with Pluto and look ahead to the mission’s next exploration of the […]
August 15, 2016
People often speak of meteors and meteorites as if they come from far-flung stars, but the truth is that virtually all of them come from the […]
August 1, 2016
I first learned about the Solar System‘s planets when I was six years old. My music teacher conditioned our class to learn their names in the […]
July 13, 2016
Large, looping orbit takes dwarf planet 700 years to travel around the sun A team of astronomers has discovered a new dwarf planet, and they weren’t even […]
January 23, 2016
How skeptical should we be, and how will we find out if this mystery planet is really out there? Scientists have long suspected that our solar […]