On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever ...

NASA launched New Horizons to explore Pluto. In 2019, it visited the furthest object in the Solar System we have seen up close.

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) are some of our solar system's lesser-known objects. They number in the thousands, and they get ...

Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

Two retrograde planets align on Wednesday, bringing special energy into each zodiac sign's love horoscope for July 16, 2025.

If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s.

This image, taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015, is the most accurate natural color image of Pluto. This ...

On July 14, 2015, a spacecraft flew by Pluto for the first time! NASA's New Horizons spacecraft spent 9.5 years making the ...

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker This image, taken by NASA's ...

Before defining what a light-year is, we should define what a light-year is not: It is not a measure of time, but rather a ...

The team launched on June 25, 2025, aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, Grace, from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center. This ...

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons space probe came within 7,800 miles of Pluto, providing NASA scientists with the clearest ...