In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

A four-year-old boy's curiosity about planets has inspired him to write his first children's book. Viaan Mundeja-Gupta, who ...

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On January 19, 2006, NASA launched a spacecraft to Pluto! New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano, and it became the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto. It launched from Cape ...

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This mission marked the first time a spacecraft was sent to explore Pluto, providing unprecedented images and data about the celestial object and its surroundings. Multimedia editor Rob Landers ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

The system already has tracking data for "1,436,743 asteroids, 3,992 comets, 293 planetary satellites [including satellites ...

Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...