Looking Up is transcribed using a combination of AI speech recognition and human editors. It may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. Dean Regas: Back in ...

Now scientists await a bounty of new data about the small, mysterious icy body, the most distant object ever visited. By Kenneth Chang The probe that visited Pluto will study a mysterious icy world ...

In a paper published today in Nature, a team of U.S. scientists led by Dr. S. Alan Stern of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), concludes that two newly discovered small moons of Pluto were very ...

An annual event over recent years, the I Heart Pluto Festival in Flagstaff, Arizona, celebrates the history, heritage, and cutting-edge astronomy at Lowell Observatory. On Feb. 18, 1930, the young ...

Preface: Inside the farthest exploration in history -- Introduction: Out of lock -- Dreams of a grand tour -- The Pluto underground -- Ten years in the wilderness -- The undead -- New Horizons at last ...

Finding Supports Theory that Single Collision Created Ninth Planet’s Three Satellites Using new Hubble Space Telescope observations, a research team led by Dr. Hal Weaver of the Johns Hopkins ...