Bizarre Discovery on Pluto Could Change Everything We Know About the Dwarf Planet
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Data from the New Horizons automatic station confirmed that Pluto’s Wright Mons and Piccard Mons are indeed the result of…
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A Gargantuan Object Smashed Into Pluto Helping Carve Its Hearth-Shaped Feature
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Scientists have been studying Pluto’s ‘heart’ and focused their research on a particular region – Sputnik Planitia. Billions of years…
Astronomers Snap Spectacular Photo of Pluto’s “Dark Side”
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The team of the interplanetary station New Horizons has published an image of the southern hemisphere of Pluto, which was…
Pluto’s Atmosphere is Slowly Vanishing Into Outer Space
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Pluto’s atmosphere is very thin, and its main component is nitrogen with insignificant admixtures of methane and carbon monoxide. The…
Mystery Red Spots on Pluto’s Surface Baffle Scientists—10 Things You Should Know
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The fascinating icy surface of Pluto is covered in red spots of tholins, but new experiments have shown that the…
Incredible Resemblance: Snow-Capped Mountains On Pluto Resembles Those on Earth
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Pluto is really an amazing place. Although no longer classified as a planet, Pluto remains one of the solar system’s…
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About “Dwarf Planet” Pluto
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Pluto is considered as the largest dwarf planet in our solar system. Moreover, it’s one of the members of the…
Dwarf Pluto Likely Started Out as a Warm Planet With Vast Oceans
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Until now, and mostly due to its location so far from the Sun, scientists thought that the origin of the…
5 Close-Up Images of Pluto’s Surface You Won’t Believe Are Real
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Pluto, designated (134340) Pluto, is a dwarf planet in the solar system following Neptune’s orbit. It comes from the Roman…
Check Out 11 Stunning Close-Up Images of Pluto Taken By NASA’s New Horizon Spacecraft
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In 2016, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history after it flew past Pluto, our solar system’s former planet, now a…
Ninety years Since Pluto Was Officially Named: Here’s What You Should Know
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This May 1 marks 90 years since the now dwarf planet Pluto received its own name. This remote body of…
There Is Evidence That Pluto Has a Vast Ocean Under Its Crust
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In 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past Pluto making its way towards the Oort cloud. As it passed next…
Strange Honeycomb Patterns on Mars Revealed in new HiRISE Photographs
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Of all the planets in the solar system, none is as mysterious and interesting to humans as Mars. This is…
Astronomers Find Gargantuan Black Hole That Eats One Earth Every Second
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An international team led by astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered the fastest-growing black hole in the…
Glaciers on Mars’ South Pole Flow Just like on Earth
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A paper by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist Isaac Smith says glaciers of carbon dioxide are moving across Mars’ south…
Earth’s Core Oscillates Contradicting Previous Models
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Researchers have discovered that Earth’s core oscillates, contradicting the assumption that the core rotates continuously faster than the planet’s surface….
Using Gravity’s Effect on Space-Time as a Gigantic Telescope To Image Distant Alien Worlds
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To date, we have discovered more than 5,000 alien worlds in our galaxy alone. There are thousands of solar systems…
Record-Breaking Brown Dwarf Binary Changes Understanding of Star-Formation
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Astronomers have discovered the most severely separated brown dwarf binary system to date – the distance between the components of…
Doomsday Clock Remains at 100 Seconds to Midnight — 10 Key Factors to Consider
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What time is it? Well, 100 seconds to the apocalypse, according to scientists. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has kept…
Researchers Find Evidence of Subterranean Ocean On Saturn’s “Death Star” Moon Mimas
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Mimas, the smallest and innermost of Saturn’s major satellites and home to a large crater that resembles the Death Star…
Massive Cosmic Bubble Protects Our Solar System—Here’s What We Know About It
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Back in 2020, astronomers envisioned that the heliosphere – a bubble that surrounds the Solar System and protects life on…
New Telescope Will Look For Alien Life In Nearby Solar Systems
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Astronomers have announced the creation of a new space telescope to search for habitable planets in the Alpha Centauri system,…