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NASA just received the last close-up photos of Pluto that humanity may ever take
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the last bit of data from its 2015 flyby of Pluto.The picture — one of a sequence of shots of Pluto and its big moon, Charon — arrived earlier this week at...
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A comet strike on Pluto hints it may be hiding a giant, habitable ocean
Two new studies of Pluto suggest the enigmatic ice ball was walloped by a giant comet, and that it is hiding a very big secret: liquid water.If two groups of scientists are correct, Pluto isn't frozen...
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Pluto is hiding a gigantic liquid ocean you would never, ever want to swim in
Pluto is hiding a very big secret some 3 billion miles away from Earth: a vast ocean of liquid water.If you could suck all of the liquid from below the dwarf planet's icy shell, it might amount to a...
View ArticleA new NASA video shows Pluto in exquisite detail
The New Horizons spacecraft traveled more than 3 billion miles to reach Pluto. Scientists at NASA have used the mission data to create flyovers that are even closer than the actual spacecraft. Video...
View ArticleAnimated map of the solar system shows just how far humans have explored space
This year, 2017, marks the 60th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit Earth. In those 60 years, we've gone much further, reaching new planets and even the edge of the solar...
View ArticleScientists have solved one of Pluto's most puzzling mysteries
There are regions in Pluto where huge ice structures exist. Scientists finally think they know how they are formed.Scientists have solved one of Pluto's most puzzling mysteries. In 2015, NASA's New...
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These new photos from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft were captured farther...
Until recently, the image captured farthest from Earth was the "pale blue dot" photo that the Voyager 1 spacecraft snapped before shutting off its cameras in 1990.Now, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft...
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Is it Planet 9 or Planet X? Scientists spar over what to call the solar...
Astronomers are hunting for a missing planet in the solar system beyond Pluto.They've found indirect evidence for the existence of the hypothetical world, often called Planet Nine.But Alan Stern, who...
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NASA just woke up a nuclear-powered probe 1 billion miles beyond Pluto — and...
NASA's New Horizons probe, which visited Pluto in 2015, recently woke up from hibernation.Scientists are preparing New Horizons to visit a mysterious, peanut-shaped frozen rock called Ultima Thule.The...
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Scientists have spotted mountains on Pluto that look like giant ice volcanoes
NASA scientists have pieced together the most detailed image yet of one of two giant mountains on Pluto that they suspect might be ice volcanoes.This feature, nicknamed Wright Mons, is about 90 miles...
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Pluto just got even weirder with this unprecedented photo of its north pole
Wow.That's what we have to say about this incredible new photo of Pluto's north pole that NASA just released:The New Horizons spacecraft took this high-resolution shot as it approached the icy world on...
View ArticleThis animation shows the complex features of Pluto, which rival anything...
In July, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time.The photos the craft sent back so far have astounded researchers. New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says,...
View ArticleThis strange phenomenon could reclassify former planet Pluto yet again
Former planet Pluto may have been miscategorized yet again. A recent analysis of its atmosphere showed that it may be something we've never seen before — a comet-planet hybrid.Produced by Matt Stuart....
View ArticleWatching this video makes it feel like you're exploring Pluto
Have you ever wanted to zoom billions of miles away from Earth and explore our controversial celestial-body-formerly-known-as-a-planet Pluto?Thanks to a new 360° interactive video by The New York...
View ArticleNASA just released the most detailed close-up shots of Pluto’s surface yet,...
NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto last July, and it took the most detailed images of the planet that have ever been seen. NASA just released some of the images, and they are absolutely...
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You can now buy these awesome postage stamps of Pluto and the planets
Back in 1991, the US Postal Service issued stamps of the solar system's then-nine planets.Although Pluto has since been demoted to dwarf planet, it had the only one that read "not yet explored."So when...
View ArticleNASA released the sharpest photos of Pluto in history — and they're spectacular
Last July, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto. The event was one for the history books. Because Pluto is so far, it took time for the spacecraft to transmit all of its stunning views of the...
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Something is moving beneath Pluto's icy skin — and it might be liquid water
Pluto, our lonesome ex-planetary cousin in the Kuiper Belt, might have a secret buried kilometers below its surface: an ocean of liquid water.When New Horizons flung itself past Pluto in 2015, it...
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Pluto might be hiding a vast liquid ocean beneath its icy surface
Last summer, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft found something surprising on Pluto, the cosmic underdog nearly 4 billion miles from the sun.It turns out that the distant space rock, which was demoted to...
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NASA is sending a probe to explore a strange object a billion miles beyond Pluto
Even as the Juno mission made history by successfully coming into orbit around Jupiter, NASA had its eyes on other ways to push the boundaries of our knowledge about the universe around us.The agency...
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