Scientists say a new planetarium show about the Milky Way has helped them unlock one of the solar system’s many secrets.

SwRI has provided ultraviolet spectrographs for other spacecraft, including ESA's Rosetta comet orbiter, as well as NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission in ...

After the spacecraft's primary objectives at Pluto were completed, New Horizons' ultraviolet spectrograph (named "Alice") was used to make more frequent surveys of Lyman-alpha emissions as New ...

after passing by Pluto in 2015, the spacecraft traveled outside the dustiest regions of Earth’s solar system—a good vantage point for viewing Lyman-alpha emissions. Lyman-alpha is a specific ...

Did you know that some bird eggs glow under ultraviolet light ... the most beautiful buildings on Earth Pluto Day—The Rise and Fall of Our Favorite ‘Lost’ Planet! The wonderkid who ran ...

The changing faces of Pluto| The predominant color of Pluto's surface is thought to result from ultraviolet radiation from the distant Sun breaking down methane on the planet's surface ...

The surprise presence of hydrogen peroxide on Charon suggested to the team that the water-ice-rich surface of Pluto's largest moon is being actively altered by ultraviolet light from the sun ...

Researchers studying Pluto’s small moon, Charon ... intriguing because it shows that Charon’s water ice-rich surface undergoes change due to the UV light from the Sun and particles from the solar wind ...

"Carbon dioxide is known to be present in regions of the protoplanetary disk from which the Pluto system formed." The hydrogen peroxide, meanwhile, could have been the result of ultraviolet solar ...

The distance between Charon and Pluto is about 12,200 miles (19,640 ... was chemically altered by the perpetual onslaught of ultraviolet radiation from the sun as well as energetic particles ...

Astronomers have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Pluto's largest moon ... ice-rich surface is altered by solar ultraviolet light and energetic particles ...