Rings circle the solar system’s largest planets. Saturn has the most famous ring system, but Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus are... Read More
Millions of miles beyond Pluto in the cold, dark regions of the Kuiper Belt sits another dwarf planet. This one... Read More
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is lining up its approach on the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn’s mission to Ceres has taken eight... Read More
Every day NASA’s Dawn spacecraft gets closer to the dwarf planet Ceres. As the distance closes, Dawn is giving us... Read More
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft captured another image of the dwarf planet, Ceres. You can see the bright spots featured prominently once again. Scientists aren’t sure what exactly it is, but we will be getting better resolution images as Dawn continues to get closer to Ceres. Read More
NASA achieves another milestone. Its Dawn spacecraft has become the first to orbit a dwarf planet. Ceres’ gravity grabbed ahold... Read More
It took more than 9 years for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to travel more than 3 billion miles to Pluto.... Read More
The most sophisticated telescopes discover galaxies millions of light-years away. Kepler sees exoplanets hundreds of light-years away. Yet, our solar... Read More
You don’t need the latest and greatest telescope to make a discovery. In February, National Research Council of Canada’s Dr.... Read More
8.5 billion miles away from the Sun sits a cold world bathed in darkness. Known as 2014 UZ224, it’s the... Read More