Forbidden planet: was Pluto’s 2006 demotion a big mistake?

Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting the decision – and they’re only getting more passionate ...
Bright Side on MSN

Will Pluto eventually hit Neptune as their orbits intersect?

Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's path, so why haven't they collided? The real answer involves orbital resonance, gravity, and ...

After 8 years, Europe’s BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury

Nothing like the controlled disassembly of BepiColombo has ever been attempted in such a harsh environment as the region of ...

NASA’s Pluto Probe Could Lose 2 Key Instruments at a Crucial Moment

The spacecraft is currently approaching the outer boundary of the solar system as it prepares to cross into interstellar space.
Smithsonian Magazine

After an Eight-Year Journey, Two Spacecraft Have Begun Their Arrival to Mercury, the Inner Solar System’s Most Mysterious Planet

The BepiColombo mission, by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is only the third to study ...

A battle-tested spacecraft now begins its approach to Mercury

It's the final countdown.

In 1925, a Kansas farm boy built his own telescope from scratch. Five years later, his homemade astronomy led him to discover Pluto

Long before Clyde Tombaugh was searching the skies from an observatory in Arizona, he was a farm boy trying to make sense of ...
IFLScience

A NASA Spacecraft Is Nearing The Edge Of The Solar System. Its Instruments May Be Shut Off Due To Lack Of Funding

New Horizons' instruments may be shut off before it reaches the Solar System's "termination shock", despite it being fully functional likely into the 2050s.
Space.com on MSN

Scientists watch a comet being born 3 billion miles away

A rare look at a centaur transforming into a comet with coma is providing a missing link in the evolution of small, icy solar ...
KSMU

Astro Brief: Fragmenting Comets

Astro Brief is a podcast collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...
BroadwayWorld

Chengyu Deng Turns Sound, Data and Movement Into Living Performance

For Chengyu Deng, sound is something that moves through a room, responds to the people inside it instead of being something ...

ESA Mission BepiColombo: The months-long arrival at Mercury has begun

With BepiColombo, a European and a Japanese orbiter are flying to Mercury. Both have now begun the complicated and lengthy ...