Astronomers spot 20 more moons of Saturn — and want you to help name them Saturn has pulled ahead of Jupiter again in the moon discovery race, thanks to a batch of 20 outer moons… Read More
Ultimate Ultima: New Horizons team shares sharpest view of space snowman The scientists behind NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have released the sharpest possible view of the mission’s latest target, a smooshed-in… Read More
Watch New Horizons probe ring in the New Year with record-setting Ultima Thule flyby LAUREL, Md. — The sleeping bags are rolled out and the videos are cued up for a New Year’s celebration of… Read More
Farout! Astronomers identify the most distant known object in our solar system Astronomers say they’ve discovered the most distant body ever observed in our solar system, a potential dwarf planet that’s about… Read More
NASA says its Voyager 2 probe has entered interstellar space, six years after Voyager 1 NASA says its Voyager 2 probe has become the second human-made object to fly into interstellar space — six years after… Read More
12 years after launch, New Horizons probe zeroes in on mysterious Ultima Thule Act Two of the 12-year-old New Horizons mission to Pluto and the solar system’s icy Kuiper Belt is heating up, with… Read More
Search for Planet Nine turns up a way-out dwarf planet that’s called ‘The Goblin’ While searching for a hypothetical Planet Nine, astronomers found a distant mini-world that’s been given a spooky nickname: “The Goblin.”… Read More
Hunt for Planet Nine leads to mini-worlds The hypothetical world known as Planet X or Planet Nine hasn’t yet been found, but thanks to the search, astronomers have discovered smaller… Read More
