Alan Stern has never been happy with Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet. Principal investigator of NASA's New Horizons mission, he told Gizmodo the International Astronomical Union's new definition of a planet, which excludes...
1. A second mini moon circling Earth
The moon has figured prominently in our culture, popping up in songs, poems, and literature throughout the centuries. So NASA's confirmation that there's a second moon piqued the curiosity...
Pluto may be able to reclaim its planet status once more. But, we’ve heard that before - in 2014, and again in 2015. So, why would this year be any different for the dwarf planet? Data gathered during the New Horizons...
Ever since the first images of Pluto’s heart-shaped ‘message of love’ graced NASA’s Instagram feed, we’ve been pretty enamored with the dwarf planet...
Brand new high-resolution images have finally arrived from Pluto. Captured between September 5 and 7, the hefty data download took quite a while to relay to Earth because, well, they just don’t have broadband in space....
Brand new high-resolution images have finally arrived from Pluto. Captured between September 5 and 7, the hefty data download took quite a while to relay to Earth because, well, they just don’t have broadband in space....
This morning, we woke up in a world forever changed. Well, that’s technically true of every morning, unless you believe that history does in fact repeat itself. NASA this morning gave the world a first look at the surface...
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