Pluto pulled Adeene Denton into its orbit during her undergraduate internship at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. It was summer 2015, when the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past the ...

The discovery of another moon around Pluto is exciting news for planetary science, but it's also likely causing some anxiety for the team in charge of New Horizons, a spacecraft set to be the first ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, January 23Pluto reaches conjunction with the Sun at 5 A.M. EST.

The period features lunar close approaches to Uranus and Jupiter, including the Last Quarter Moon phase. Jupiter also presents transit events of its Galilean moons, Io and Europa, accompanied by their ...