Mary Lou Whitehorne

We’ve been waiting for a long time and, finally, we’re on our way. But there are no “direct” flights to Pluto—the only way to get there is to first swing by Jupiter.

The poet Walt Whitman said, “I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are.” But where are they, exactly?

If Earth is closest to the Sun in January, shouldn’t it be summer?

Mary Lou Whitehorne explains why there's nowhere to go but up.