On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons probe made the closest approach in human history to the distant Pluto system. As it turns out, New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern is already thinking ...

Fans of astronomy who also have a musical bent may have experienced a “what if” moment this week. With NASA’s New Horizons currently thrilling the world with the best ever images of the dwarf planet, ...

NASA's New Horizons interplanetary probe has been much in the news recently as it approached it's rendezvous with Pluto in the outer reaches of our solar system. As you most likely have read, when the ...

You could say that Pluto is the Rodney Dangerfield of planets. Downgraded from “planet” to “dwarf planet” in 2006, and with nearly 100 planets discovered during the recent missions of NASA’s Kepler ...

There are only eight planets in the solar system. Better get used to it. The International Astronomical Union's members voted Thursday to accept a definition of the term "planet" that leaves tiny, ...

From Pluto's 1930 discovery to the emotional reaction worldwide to its demotion from planetary status, astrophysicist, science popularizer and Hayden Planetarium director deGrasse Tyson (Death by ...

What About Pluto? sounds ridiculously polished for a band one EP into its existence. Part of that is the production, from the Hook Factory. But this is also a sure-handed group, confident in each bass ...