Nearly 11 years after NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made humanity’s first close flyby of Pluto, scientists have returned to its images and identified something that had previously escaped ...

Pluto did in fact both bend and accelerate the trajectory of New Horizons when the spacecraft reconnoitered the dwarf planet in 2015, but only very slightly. There are three reasons the trajectory ...

Why are there moons at the edge of the solar system that cause their rotation axes to fluctuate as if ignoring the laws of ...

There are plenty of crazy ideas for missions in the space exploration community. Some are just better funded than others. One of the early pathways to funding the crazy ideas is NASA's Institute for ...

Pluto might have hogged much of the spotlight historically, but the dwarf planet is actually part of a double act, alongside its biggest satellite, Charon. A new analysis suggests that Pluto used its ...

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