The New Horizons spacecraft is still on the job for NASA, sending back stunning images from Pluto. Those photos from more than three billion miles away are filled with surprises. In this FOX 4Ward, Dan Godwin talks to a planetary scientist from U.T. Dallas about what those pictures are t...
Ice mountains on Pluto, imaged by the New Horizons spacecraft about 90 minutes before its closest encounter with Pluto, at a distance of about 47 thousand miles. The lack of cratering indicates the mountains are relatively young (probably between 100 and 200 million years old), but no mec...
This Jupiter pic is a montage of the planet and its moon Io, captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on its way out to Pluto. The two objects were never actually lined up like this, instead, the separate images were combined together on computer. Remove All Ads on Universe Today Joi...
This is a picture of Pluto being visited by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. The actual encounter is going to happen in 2015, when the first close-up images of the surface of Pluto will be sent back to Earth. I hope you enjoyed these Pluto pics....
The moon can now be seen in all its glory after the Japanese space agency released all the pictures taken by its Kaguya spacecraft. The collection includes more than 450 images, including some never seen before, such as the earthrise and earthset from a lunar perspective. The spacecraft ...
WITH MORE THAN twenty spacecraft in operation, 2016 was a peak year for solar system exploration activity. The start of Akatsuki's and Juno's science missions meant that, once again, data began flowing from Venus and Jupiter. OSIRIS-REx launched on its mission to an asteroid, and ExoMars ...
Just this month new data appears to have confirmed the existence of a watery ocean beneath the surface of Saturnian moon Enceladus. This is not entirely surprising, given that theCassini spacecraft has been spotting plumes of water vaporand ice spurting through the moon's icy shell for years ...
The simulator in no way resembles a realistic spacecraft, and burying it in a field is just daft. The final scenes try so hard not to resolve the set-up, they end up setting a completely different tone to what’s gone before. This is a film that wants its cake and to eat it too...