One Pluto year equals 248 Earth years. At 1473 miles in diameter—about half the width of the United States—Pluto is the ...

What is currently known about Pluto could probably fit on a few index cards, Stern has said. New Horizons’ data will enable entire textbooks to be written about the mysterious celestial body.

During its initial journey to Pluto, New Horizons collected baseline data about Lyman-alpha emissions using the Alice instrument, an SwRI-developed ultraviolet spectrograph. A spectrograph is a ...

the history of astronomy. The New Horizons station is the first man-made object to reach Pluto. Till now, an incredibly distant and barely seen by telescopes ice dwarf remained an almost complete ...

During its initial journey to Pluto, New Horizons collected baseline data about Lyman-alpha emissions using the Alice instrument, an SwRI-developed ultraviolet spectrograph. A spectrograph is a ...

However, some scientists argue that Pluto should be considered a planet based on geological activity rather than orbital mechanics. NASA’s New Horizons mission revealed ice mountains ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has successfully ...

The Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has successfully completed its initial commissioning following the October 14, 2024, launch. Scheduled to arrive in the ...

From gravel-size meteoroids to mountain-size asteroids and even visitors from other star systems, space is packed with ...

From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...

Get ready for a much-needed shake-up in the cosmos!