Pluto's Barnacled Beauty
Early images from New Horizons' encounter with Pluto reveal an extraordinary surface of strange mountains and varying deposits of light and dark material
Life, Unbounded
Discussion and news about planets, exoplanets, and astrobiology
Good-Bye Pluto, Thanks for Everything
Although we've only just begun to see the scientific return from NASA's New Horizons mission and its close encounter with the Pluto–Charon system, this has been an unexpectedly profound human endeavor...
A Tale of Interstellar Progress
Interstellar travel may present some unforseen problems in this short fiction
Does a Multiverse Fermi Paradox Disprove the Multiverse?
If we live in a multiverse, then Where Is Everybody Else?
Dissolving Surface May Form Titan's Lakes
Titan's lake depressions may form as its organic crust is dissolved by liquid hydrocarbons.
There's Methane in Them Thar Martian Rocks!
Indigenous methane appears to exist in Martian rocks
The Pluto Punch-Through
On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft finally reaches Pluto. But the encounter will be brief
1,776 Portraits of a Comet
A stunning library of comet close-ups
Crazy, Wonderful Spacecraft Orbits
Over the years humans have deployed spacecraft into some wild, wacky, and extremely clever orbital configurations to better study the cosmos.
Just Another Cloudy Morning on a Hot Exoplanet
Astronomers use Kepler telescope to study weather on Jupiter-size planets beyond our solar system
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