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Voyage to the edge of the solar system: Visualizing the 3-billion-mile divide
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Voyage to the edge of the solar system: Visualizing the 3-billion-mile divide
New Horizons spacecraft has reached the dwarf planet; space agency sends out stunning color image; history being made in outer solar system
NASA's New Horizons probe hurtled ever closer to Pluto Monday, on track for a dramatic flyby Tuesday
The mysterious object has apparent impact craters and what looks like huge chasms longer and deeper than the Grand Canyon.
"This is a scientific wonderland ... like nothing we have ever visited in the history of planetary exploration"
"I don't expect that we will see another mission to big real estate that has not yet been explored," says NASA scientist
Taken from under 4 million miles away, a celestial stone's throw, new images of Pluto bring the icy dwarf into amazing focus
NASA has selected four astronauts to train for flights to the space station aboard Boeing and SpaceX commercial crew ships
A new NASA image shows active regions on the sun's surface giving off searing blues, greens, purples and yellows
Scientists have pulled back the celestial curtain on a universe potentially filled with supermassive black holes
The Pluto-bound New Horizons is out of safe mode and ready to resume science operations, one week from its historic flyby
This image, sent back by NASA's Galileo spacecraft, shows the moon covered with deep red gashes that look oddly biological
NASA has resolved a subtle timing glitch that briefly knocked the Pluto-bound New Horizons probe out of action.
A free app gives armchair astronomers and Plutophiles a front-row seat for the historic encounter
An exhaustive search has turned up no signs of potentially dangerous debris along the path of NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons probe
NASA's probe is a mere 10 million miles from the enigmatic dwarf planet at the farthest reaches of the solar system
Scientists delcare first Asteroid Day to educate and raise awareness about the risks posed by space rocks
The day will be one second longer than usual to compensate for the fact that Earth's rotation is slowing down
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon cargo ship bound for the space station is set for launch Sunday morning
A new memorial at the Kennedy Space Center honors the crews of Challenger and Columbia
After a quarter century of silence, a black hole the size of 12 suns is bursting with X-ray and gamma ray activity
"I've never seen this before... Spectacular!" the astronaut tweeted when he spotted this sight from the space station
Stargazers will see a special sight in the night sky this weekend and there's more to look forward to over the next few weeks
The image from NASA's Messenger probe shows the planet is nothing like the dull, grey spot that you would see from Earth
Jack King, the NASA commentator who counted down the launch of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, died Thursday