After a voyage of more than 3 billion miles, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is ready…
Browsing: Pluto
Pluto is a dwarf planet located in the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy bodies beyond Neptune, and was once considered the ninth planet in the solar system until its reclassification by the International Astronomical Union in 2006. Despite its small size and distant orbit, Pluto has captivated scientists and the public alike, especially following NASA’s New Horizons flyby in 2015, which revealed a surprisingly dynamic world with towering ice mountains, vast nitrogen glaciers, and a possible subsurface ocean. Pluto’s complex geology and thin atmosphere challenge previous assumptions about what small, icy bodies can be, making it a focal point in the study of planetary formation and the diversity of worlds in our solar system.
After nearly nine years and three billion miles, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has come out…
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics held a new debate to discuss the planetary status of…
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is only a year away from Pluto. This new ScienceCast video…
A new model will help reveal the evolution of Pluto’s moon Charon by predicting different…
A newly published study looks at the formation of Pluto and its low-mass satellites, finding…
A new ScienceCast video details what NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft might find when it reaches…
Kerberos and Styx have been officially recognized as the names for the fourth and fifth…
New computer simulations suggest that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will encounter many small satellites as…
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers discovered a fifth moon, designated P5, orbiting Pluto that…