Legendary explorers and visionaries, real and fictitious, are among those immortalized by the IAU in the first set of official surface-feature names for Pluto's largest moon, Charon. The names were proposed by the New Horizons ...
Space Exploration
Apr 12, 2018
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With the death of Stephen Hawking, the world has lost an adventurer.
Astronomy
Mar 15, 2018
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As NASA's New Horizons mission continues exploring the unknown, the mission team has selected a highly appropriate nickname for its next flyby target in the outer reaches of the solar system.
Space Exploration
Mar 14, 2018
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In the real world, your past uniquely determines your future. If a physicist knows how the universe starts out, she can calculate its future for all time and all space.
General Physics
Feb 21, 2018
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image – and made history.
Space Exploration
Feb 9, 2018
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The Trump Administration is proposing to ease regulations that were adopted to make offshore oil and gas drilling operations safer after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. This event was the worst oil spill in U.S. history. ...
Environment
Jan 8, 2018
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The New Year's celebration to usher in 2019 will include an event like no other – more than four billion miles from Earth.
Space Exploration
Jan 5, 2018
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The field for NASA's next New Frontiers mission is narrowing. Officials announced the two finalists for a new robotic explorer mission—one that would send a spacecraft to bring samples of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ...
Space Exploration
Dec 21, 2017
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The center of our Galaxy has been intensely studied for many years, but it still harbors surprises for scientists. A snake-like structure lurking near our galaxy's supermassive black hole is the latest discovery to tantalize ...
Astronomy
Dec 20, 2017
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Scientists were already excited to learn this summer that New Horizons' next flyby target – a Kuiper Belt object a billion miles past Pluto – might be either peanut-shaped or even two objects orbiting one another. Now ...
Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2017
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