The PI's Perspective: A New Mission Update for the New Year
Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 18, 2025
New Horizons is healthy and continuing to speed outward across the Kuiper Belt. Our spacecraft is 61 times as far from the Sun as Earth, or over 5.5 billion miles from home! Radio signals, traveling ... more
NASA's Webb Uncovers Ancient Features of Trans-Neptunian Objects
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2025
Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are a diverse group of icy bodies orbiting beyond Neptune, ranging in size from dwarf planets such as Pluto and Eris, with diameters of approximately 1,500 miles, to m ... more
New Study Suggests Trench-Like Features on Uranus' Moon Ariel May Be Windows to Its Interior
Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 05, 2025
Last year, a study led by planetary scientist Richard Cartwright at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, proposed that deposits of carbon dioxide ice and other car ... more