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Is That a Big Crater on Pluto? Pyramidal Mountain Found on Ceres

You're probably as eager as I am for new images of Pluto and Ceres as both New Horizons and Dawn…

9 years ago

Weekly Space Hangout – June 26, 2015: Paul Sutter, CCAPP Visiting Fellow

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: This week we welcome Paul Sutter, the CCAPP Visiting Fellow who works on the…

9 years ago

New Horizons, Approaching Pluto, Detects Signs of Polar Caps

The latest set of images from the long range imager, LORRI, on New Horizons now reveals surface features. At a…

10 years ago

Weekly Space Hangout – April 17, 2015: Amy Shira Teitel and “Breaking the Chains of Gravity”

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Amy Shira Teitel (@astVintageSpace) discussing space history and her new book Breaking the Chains…

10 years ago

The Moment We’ve been Waiting For: First New Images of Pluto from New Horizons

Here we go! New Horizons is now on approach and today – on the anniversary of Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh’s…

10 years ago

The Solar System’s ‘Yearbook’ is About to Get Filled In

Lined up like familiar faces in your high school yearbook, here are images of the 33 largest objects in the…

10 years ago

‘Death Star’ Ocean? Seven Moons That Could Host Huge Hidden Liquid Reservoirs

Could there be an ocean hidden somewhere in that Death Star-like picture? This is an image of Mimas, a moon…

10 years ago

Watch Pluto and Charon Engage in Their Orbital Dance

Now here's something I guarantee you've never seen before: a video of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon…

10 years ago

Where Exactly Is Pluto? Pinpoint Precision Needed For New Horizons Mission

When you have a spacecraft that takes the better part of a decade to get to its destination, it's really,…

10 years ago

New Horizons Wakes Up for the Summer

While many kids in the U.S. are starting their school summer vacations, New Horizons is about to get back to work! Speeding…

11 years ago