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Alan Stern: ‘A Chihuahua is still a dog, and Pluto is still a planet’
"Our whole view of the solar system turned upside in the 1990s when we discovered other Pluto-like planets. It's Earth that's the misfit," says Alan Stern.
February 18, 2010
Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Pluto debate
Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses how In the mid-1990s, researchers were discovering objects that were small and icy like Pluto, with elongated orbits like Pluto.
February 15, 2010
Vote on Pluto: Should it be called a planet?
February of 2010 marked the 80th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto. Astronomer and author Ken Croswell told us how you can vote on Pluto, if it should be a planet.
February 15, 2010
Bad Astronomy blogger Phil Plait on NASA’s future
"This is not the end of NASA's manned space program," said Plait, the Bad Astronomy blogger, about the new NASA budget. "I see this as a shake-up ..."
February 8, 2010
Solar Dynamics Observatory studies sun in super HD
The Solar Dynamics Observatory studies the solar storms the drive our space weather here on Earth. It carries instruments to take detailed images of our sun.
February 8, 2010
Destination Moon, a scifi classic
Destination Moon refers to the 1950 scifi classic. Across the board, the media makes inexcusably egregious mistakes, and promotes misconceptions, about our moon.
February 6, 2010
Two asteroids caught in the act of colliding?
Have astronomers found an asteroid fresh from a collision? What does it say about asteroids colliding in our solar system?
February 2, 2010
BOSS will map large-scale structure of universe
The universe's first sound waves shaped the distribution of galaxies. The BOSS project uses ancient sound waves to map the universe's structure.
February 1, 2010
Could Earth’s gravity capture an asteroid?
The Earth's gravity could capture an asteroid if all the conditions - speed, size and angle - were just right.
January 25, 2010
Measuring extreme cold on surface of moon
A new thermal map of the moon shows the coldest temperatures in our solar system ever directly measured, particularly in the polar region.
January 18, 2010
