When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft sent back the first high-resolution images of Pluto and its moon Charon, scientists quickly realized the outer solar system was more active than they’d previously ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to reveal the secrets of our solar system. In a recent discovery, scientists have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the icy surface of ...
How did Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, form? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to address as an international team of researchers led by the University of Arizona ...
Even though New Horizons’ main objective was realized back in July, we’ve only seen a small fraction of the images and data collected during its historic flyby. More will continue to trickle through ...
A startling amount of focus is given, not just to the planets in our solar system, but also their moons. Titan and Enceladus are being examined for signs of life, and Phobos, Triton, Europa give clues ...