A NASA spacecraft far from Earth has made an unexpected discovery, after turning its instruments towards a dark patch of sky ...

A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

PhotoPhoto of Pluto and its moon Charon, as seen with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994. In the same part constellation, Orion, as Betelgeuse but even farther away is the Orion Nebula ...

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After almost a decade in space, the New Horizons probe's close encounter with Pluto lasted just six days as it hurtled past at nearly 50,000 kilometres an hour. I was lucky enough to witness ...

Mickey sends Pluto out to fetch the newspaper this time only to be taken aboard an alien spacecraft where he is examined with tools and uses the transformation ray to make him to have 2 legs and ...

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...

In the wake of this colossal impact, the colliding bodies behaved like fluids, with the moon forming out of the molten debris which had been ejected into space. "Pluto and Charon are different ...