"The Pluto flyby happened, and I was in the right place at the right time - perfectly positioned to fall in love with it," ...

Funding uncertainties are pushing U.S. space scientists out of the field and putting existing and future space missions on the chopping block.

On Nov. 7, Venus will square Pluto, creating friction around themes of love, loyalty and trust. Discover what this means for ...

Cernan Earth and Space Center at Triton College in River Grove has a full slate of holiday programming that’s fun and ...

Pluto is more than a distant dot in the sky it is a frozen frontier billions of kilometers away that no human has ever visited Discover the daring plans that nearly sent spacecraft to the ninth planet ...

If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...

Experience the breathtaking flyby of Pluto as New Horizons transforms our understanding of the solar system Witness ice mountains taller than the Alps vast plains and a heart-shaped formation that cap ...

Pluto imparted a slight but measurable alteration to the New Horizons spacecraft's trajectory (both bending and acceleration) during its 2015 flyby. The minimal nature of this trajectory change was ...

Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.

A storm in space is when you get an enormous burst of energy, called a coronal mass ejection, that will pop off of the sun and blast all the way past Pluto. That comes with a certain polarity, meaning ...

"Similar to the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt is a region of leftovers from the solar system's early history. Like the ...

The Washington and Washington State men's basketball teams have played every year since 1917. There are no more games between ...