Planet Nine Lurking Near Sun’s Orbit? Scientists Spot Planet Around Solar System

SPACE 09.01.2021 04:20 AM

Planet Nine's orbit has been discovered, and its route around the sun has been plotted by new research. The planet is estimated to have a mass of 6.2 times that of the Earth and is 300 AU from the sun.

Why Was Pluto Demoted 15 Years Ago? Controversial Definition of Planets Disagreed by Some Astronomers

08.24.2021 22:25 PM

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) released a controversial definition of "planet" that left Pluto out. But some astronomers were against this definition that demoted the distant orb.

Pluto is Covered In Huge Red Patches; Scientists Don't Know What It Is

06.29.2021 04:30 AM

Delft University of Technology recreated Pluto's atmosphere in a lab and blasted them with plasma to know why there are huge red patches on the dwarf planet.

Pluto New Horizons Spacecraft Share Stunning Image As It Approaches Milestone Distance

04.19.2021 04:00 AM

New Horizons passed 50 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun or about 4.6 billion miles on Saturday evening at 8:42 p.m. EDT.

Pluto at 91: How Did Clyde Tombaugh Discover This Dwarf Planet?

02.16.2021 02:28 AM

Scientists marked the 91st anniversary of the discovery of Pluto this week. The IAU took away Pluto's planetary status in 2006. This dwarf planet continues to spur vigorous debate.

Pluto's Blue Haze Seems Supernatural But is Actually Lethal Poison

01.25.2021 02:30 AM

Researchers say Pluto's eerie blue haze isn't supernatural but lethal poison. Pluto's ghostly blue ring seems like it came straight out of a supernatural movie, but it's made of lethal poison in reality.

Space Is Darker Than We Thought According To NASA New Horizons Probe

01.13.2021 00:52 AM

NASA's New Horizon's Probe proved that the space is so dark and that there can't be as many galaxies out there that add a dim light to its background.

Every Planet In the Solar System Will Appear This Week, Even Ex-Planet Pluto

11.11.2020 19:00 PM

A visiting star cluster will also appear, and the Moon will shine extra brightly. This November, we may not have a meteor shower show, a blue moon, and only certain countries have the privilege of witnessing the Northern Lights.

Earth's Neighborhood in Space Has 40 Percent More Hydrogen Atoms

11.02.2020 20:00 PM

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft measurements reveal loads of Hydrogen in Interstellar Medium. Many are already starting to see what is beyond Earth with new observation missions.

The Snowman: Discovering Objects Beyond Pluto

04.23.2020 10:02 AM

Researchers shed new light on the formation of Arrokoth, and for the understanding of the early stages of the solar system.

Unsolved Mystery: Scientists are Still Debating Whether Pluto is a Planet or Not

11.08.2019 08:26 AM

In order for a celestial body to be a planet, it should become gravitationally dominant with no other celestial body close to its size except for some of its satellites which, unfortunately, Pluto cannot.

NASA Plans to Re-Visit Pluto Through a New Spacecraft

11.06.2019 08:40 AM

The spacecraft will also be designed with the right instrumentation for sizing up the glaciers and determine their depth.

Pluto Must Still Be Classified As A Planet, According To NASA Chief

08.28.2019 09:05 AM

A decade after being taken out of the list of planets, NASA Chief says that Pluto must still be considered a planet, like it has always been.

Scientists Discover Frozen Methane Dunes on Pluto

07.08.2019 07:46 AM

Something weird is at work on the cold, dark plains of Pluto, where hundreds of regularly spaced ridges look a bit like an alien thumbprint pressed into extraterrestrial ice. Today, though, researchers report in the journal Science that the strange landscape is actually a dune field crafted from methane "sand."

Why Neptune Missed Its Chance For Next ‘Cassini-Like’ Mission For Pluto

04.29.2017 05:45 AM

Find out the reason behind the almost mission for Neptune and Pluto here. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft’s trip to Pluto indeed opened up a few discoveries about the dwarf planet.

NASA’s NAIC 2017 Programme Sponsors Some Futuristic Space Exploration Concepts Like Radical Pluto Hopper

04.10.2017 06:40 AM

This year on 6th April NASA chooses twenty-two futuristic concepts under the 2017’s NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program. All these concepts are apart from conventional technology and may revolutionaries the future space exploration

NASA Update: New Horizons Spacecraft Headed Halfway Towards The Kuiper Belt For Its Next Flyby Mission To 2014 MU69

04.06.2017 06:52 AM

Eleven years ago from today spacecraft called New Horizons blasted off for Pluto. Now, after completing its journey on Pluto it's moving towards the Kuiper Belt Object(KBO) 2014 MU69. In the recent bulletin, NASA confirmed that Has already traveled half way towards the object.

Pluto To Be Restored Back As Planet

03.22.2017 19:09 PM

Several scientists have come up with a campaign to restore Pluto's former identity with a new proposed definition for 'planets'.

NASA Plans To Name Pluto’s Surface Features And Smaller Moons Related To Underworld

02.24.2017 00:25 AM

NASA will name Pluto’s mountains, craters, basins and smaller moons something that is related to the underworld.

NASA Latest Announcement: Pluto Might Become The Planetary Member Of Solar System Again

02.22.2017 07:07 AM

International Astronomical Union(IAU) declared Pluto as a “Dwarf” in the year 2006. , Alan Stern, Principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto proposed IAU to redefine Pluto as a Planet in the Solar system. Alan prepared a new definition of Planet that declares pluto as a planet alone with other 110 Planetary objects.

New Horizons Data Provide More Details About Pluto

12.21.2015 23:12 PM

The New Horizons team presented details of Pluto from data returned by the spacecraft. The New Horizons ground team has discussed new details about Pluto's geological process, composition and hazes at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.