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A conceptual mission known as "Persephone" could explore Pluto and its moons for 50 years — if it ever gets funded and ...
New data from the James Webb telescope reveals that Pluto's strange atmospheric haze controls its climate, surprising ...
Pluto, once considered the ninth planet, remains one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system. Its icy surface and ...
Though Pluto has formally been considered a dwarf planet for almost two decades, it still has many lessons left for planetary scientists — including hints about how the solar system formed.
Space Could we tweak the solar system to make Pluto a planet again? Pluto officially lost its planethood in 2006, and this episode of Dead Planets Society is all about bringing it back by making ...
On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft arrived at Pluto for the first time. The craft flew within 7,700 miles of the planet and is sending back reams of data and the highest resolution ...
Since it’s so far from the sun an average of about 3.7 billion miles, the farthest planet in the solar system and because it’s the smallest, scientists thought Pluto’s gravity would not be ...
The complex geology of Pluto also tells us about the early solar system. The surface of the planet was documented by NASA’s New Horizons mission, which flew by in 2015.