March 9, 2017
This morning, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft obtained the first closeup images of Saturn’s innermost moon, Pan. The images show a peculiar body shaped like a “flying saucer”. […]
October 22, 2015
Back in June, my research colleage Doug Hamilton and I put out a paper in Nature magazine about the four small moons of Pluto. The timing […]
September 3, 2015
After the busiest July of our lives, the New Horizons team members have finally caught up on sleep. A few of us have even had a […]
June 3, 2015
When you begin a new research project, you usually have expectations about where it will lead. Most projects take you or less to the expected destination. […]
April 1, 2015
We have added three new historic explorers to the OurPluto ballot today. Keep those great ideas coming in! I have been learning so much. Several people […]
March 29, 2015
We continue to receive a fascinating collection of nominees for the OurPluto campaign. Here are a few that we recently added to the ballot. Several wrote […]
March 26, 2015
The OurPluto naming campaign has been an exhilarating experience for me so far. The amount of thought that our site visitors have been putting into their nominations […]
March 19, 2015
Pluto is just 3.5 pixels across in the latest images from the New Horizons spacecraft. That’s nine square pixels. You can’t do much with nine pixels. […]