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Purdue team finds convection could produce Pluto's polygons
Jun 06, 2016 (SPX)
Data reported by NASA's New Horizons New Horizons mission to the Pluto system shows unusual terrain in this region, which features a large deposit of nitrogen i...
Pluto's Heart: Like a Cosmic 'Lava Lamp'
Jun 03, 2016 (SPX)
Like a cosmic lava lamp, a large section of Pluto's icy surface is being constantly renewed by a process called convection that replaces older surface ices with...
Theft behind Planet 9 in our solar system
Jun 01, 2016 (SPX)
Through a computer-simulated study, astronomers at Lund University in Sweden show that it is highly likely that the so-called Planet 9 is an exoplanet. This wou...
Study suggests Planet 9 is stolen exoplanet
May 31, 2016 (UPI)
New research suggests the mysterious and controversial "Planet 9" isn't an original member of our solar system. According to a new computer simulation developed...
New Horizons' Best Close-Up of Pluto's Surface
May 31, 2016 (SPX)
This is the most detailed view of Pluto's terrain you'll see for a very long time. This mosaic strip - extending across the hemisphere that faced the New Horizo...
Close encounters of a tidal kind could lead to cracks on icy moons
May 27, 2016 (SPX)
A new model developed by University of Rochester researchers could offer a new explanation as to how cracks on icy moons, such as Pluto's Charon, formed. Until ...
World May Now 'Face a New Kind of a Space Race'
May 24, 2016 (Sputnik)
NASA's New Horizon team has officially submitted an extended-mission proposal for its spacecraft, after it had finished its primary mission on Pluto. In an inte...
New Horizons' First Science on a Post-Pluto Object
May 20, 2016 (SPX)
Warming up for a possible extended mission as it speeds through deep space, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has now twice observed 1994 JR1, a 90-mile (145-kilom...
First Stellar Occultations Shed Additional Light on Pluto's Atmosphere
May 20, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists on NASA's New Horizons team say the spacecraft succeeded in observing the first occultations of Pluto's atmosphere by ultraviolet stars, an important...
Imaging the Encounter of a Lifetime
May 20, 2016 (SPX)
Jorge Nunez, a planetary scientist and engineer from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), is the deputy systems engineer of the Long R...
Hints of wandering planets in distant cometary belt
May 19, 2016 (UPI)
For the first time, astronomers have captured high-resolution imagery of the cometary belt surrounding HR 8799, the only star system with multiple planets that ...
Dwarf Planet Haumea's Lunar System Smaller than Anticipated
May 18, 2016 (SPX)
Haumea, a dwarf planet on the edge of our solar system, doesn't have the same kind of moons as its well-known cousin Pluto according to a new study. This is des...
Andre Brahic, discoverer of Neptune's rings, dies aged 73
May 15, 2016 (AFP)
French astrophysicist Andre Brahic, one of the discoverers of Neptune's rings, died in Paris Sunday at the age of 73, his publisher Odile Jacob said. "He was a ...
Largest unnamed world in the solar system 2007 OR10
May 12, 2016 (JPL)
Dwarf planets tend to be a mysterious bunch. With the exception of Ceres, which resides in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, all members of this ...
Icy Hydra's highly reflective surface
May 11, 2016 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent home the first compositional data about Pluto's four small satellites. The new data show the surface of Hydra, Pluto's o...
Pluto's icy moon Hydra
May 09, 2016 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent home the first compositional data about Pluto's four small satellites. The new data show the surface of Hydra, Pluto's o...
New Elevation Map of Pluto's Sunken 'Heart'
May 05, 2016 (SPX)
This newest shaded relief view of the region surrounding the left side of Pluto's heart-shaped feature - informally named Sputnik Planum - shows that the vast e...
Pluto's Interaction with the Solar Wind is Unique, Study Finds
May 05, 2016 (SPX)
Pluto has some characteristics less like that of a comet and more like much larger planets, according to the first analysis of Pluto's unique interaction with t...
Pluto: A Global Perspective
May 05, 2016 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons mission science team has produced this updated panchromatic (black-and-white) global map of Pluto. The map includes all resolved images of P...
Planet Nine: A world that shouldn't exist
May 05, 2016 (SPX)
Earlier this year scientists presented evidence for Planet Nine, a Neptune-mass planet in an elliptical orbit 10 times farther from our Sun than Pluto. Since th...
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