NASA's new full-color images reveal that Pluto's hazy atmosphere shines a brilliant blue, and beneath that sapphire haze lies several expanses of water ice.
Many of us still feel bitter about Pluto’s demotion to dwarf planet status in 2006. If you want a more specific target at which to direct your spite, read on to find out it all went down.
A manned mission to Mars is finally within sight. And while getting there will be an incredible leap for mankind, here’s why living on the Red Planet will be even tougher.
Venus is sometimes referred to as Earth’s sister planet, because it is the closest in size and mass out of all the planets in the solar system. But even if we could survive on the second planet from the sun, there are a few key...
A spacecraft with lofty sightseeing ambitions but low on fuel may be able to latch onto passing celestial bodies and use them to swing from comet to asteroid.
NASA combined the latest images from New Horizons's flyby of Pluto into a stunning animation that gives us a glimpse of the dwarf planet's majestic and distinct surface features.