[Wednesday, January 18, 2012] Today, the team fulfilling that wish mourns Patsy Tombaugh, who died Jan. 12 in Las Cruces, N.M. She was 99.

[Tuesday, December 20, 2011] The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph aboard Hubble has discovered a strong ultraviolet-wavelength absorber on Pluto's surface, providing new evidence that points to the possibility of complex hydrocarbon and/or nitrile molecules lying on the surface

[Tuesday, November 8, 2011] New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now almost two times as far from the Sun as the Earth is, and approaching six years into its 9.5-year journey to the Pluto system.

[Wednesday, October 26, 2011] Astronomers have accurately measured the diameter of the faraway dwarf planet Eris for the first time by catching it as it passed in front of a faint star.

[Monday, September 5, 2011] At this moment one of the fastest spacecraft ever launched -New Horizons - is hurtling at nearly one million miles per day. Launched in 2006, it has been in flight longer than some missions last, and still has four more years of travel to go.

[Saturday, September 3, 2011] The "Eyes on the Solar System" interface combines video game technology and NASA data to create an environment for users to ride along with agency spacecraft and explore the cosmos.

[Tuesday, August 23, 2011] Astronomers at Caltech have discovered that the dwarf planet 2007 OR10 - nicknamed Snow White - is an icy world, with about half its surface covered in water ice that once flowed from ancient, slush-spewing volcanoes.

[Saturday, August 20, 2011] In June and July, members of the New Horizons science team, using the Hubble Space Telescope, discovered and confirmed that Pluto has a fourth moon!

[Friday, August 19, 2011] Though Space Art has been around for just over a hundred years, there has never been a book that tells the story of the history of Space Art, how it came to be, how it has grown to be perhaps the most influential genre of art ever.

[Wednesday, July 20, 2011] Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite, temporarily designated P4, was uncovered in a Hubble survey searching for rings around the dwarf planet.

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