Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...
Clyde Tombaugh noticed a speck of light that was Pluto in 1930. — -- Clyde Tombaugh is finally getting to visit the speck of light he spotted at the edge of the solar system in 1930. New Horizons ...
New information about Pluto's largest moon that was revealed by a NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) telescope was shared publicly this week. The journal Nature Communications on ...
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Pluto transformed: How New Horizons revealed a world we never expected
When a single spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, it rewrote decades of assumptions in a matter of hours. This episode follows the New Horizons flyby that revealed towering ice mountains, vast frozen ...
In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its status as the ninth planet in our Solar System. From that day forward, ...
Wednesday is "Pluto Day," because – yes, of course there is a day for that. And, while celebrating the celestial object that ...
It's taken almost an entire decade of travel, but it's finally there: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has made its closest planned approached to Pluto, at just 7,750 miles above the surface. Share on ...
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