01 May 2007, 02:01 PM ET
NASA is presenting a series of stunning new images today of the Jupiter system snapped by its probe New Horizons earlier this year.
15 March 2007, 06:08 AM
01 May 2007, 02:01 PM ET
NASA is presenting a series of stunning new images today of the Jupiter system snapped by its probe New Horizons earlier this year.
15 March 2007, 06:08 AM ET
Telescopes all over the southwest United States will turn toward Pluto as it meanders across the face of a star in the constellation Sagittarius on Sunday. The observations could help researchers better understand the diminutive world's atmosphere.
09 March 2007, 03:15 PM ET
The state of New Mexico State could effectively secede from the astronomical community if a resolution to call Pluto a planet is passed.
28 February 2007, 01:59 PM ET
We’ve been waiting for a long time and, finally, we’re on our way. But there are no “direct” flights to Pluto—the only way to get there is to first swing by Jupiter.
28 February 2007, 07:16 AM ET
Visions of a volcanic plume spewing out of Jupiter’s moon Io and a swirling storm were among the first images returned by a NASA probe as it approached an early-morning swing past the gas giant today.
18 January 2007, 04:57 PM ET
A NASA probe hurtling towards Pluto will hit the accelerator next month when it flies past the planetary giant Jupiter.
12 January 2007, 06:25 AM ET
NASA’s New Horizons probe bound for Pluto is headed for a Jupiter flyby, its camera eyes wide open, in preparation for its swing out towards the fringe of the solar system.
30 November 2006, 06:43 AM ET
BOULDER, Colorado -- Now heading outward on its lengthy trek to tiny Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is on course to zip by gigantic Jupiter early next year.
29 November 2006, 02:15 PM ET
A NASA spacecraft hurtling away from Earth has caught the first glimpse of its distant destination: the dwarf planet Pluto.
21 November 2006, 06:07 AM ET
The Great Pluto War in Prague failed to forge an accepted definition, but it succeeded in alienating astronomers and deepening rifts along theoretical and national lines.
15 November 2006, 05:43 PM ET
Space.com explains information about the planet Pluto.
23 October 2006, 09:43 AM ET
Pluto may be no more than a distant, icy rock in the minds of astronomers who stripped it of planethood, but its downgrade to a "dwarf planet'' has created a teachable moment in classrooms nationwide.
26 September 2006, 05:44 PM ET
NASA's New Horizons probe, bound for Pluto, snapped an image of Jupiter that astronomer