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Pluto Is Dark And Dreary, And Now Officially The Underworld
On Thursday, the International Astronomical Union approved themes for naming surface features on Pluto and its moons. For the dwarf planet, most of the naming themes relate to the underworld.
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Is Pluto A Planet? It Is, And So Is Our Moon, Team Of NASA Scientists Argues
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Alien Life Found On Pluto? NASA Finds Evidence Of Ammonia Ocean In Dwarf Planet That May Hold 'Novel Life Forms'
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According to a new study, Sputnik Planitia — a wide plane in the western lobe of Pluto's "heart" — may have a cold, slushy ocean of water-ice.
NASA New Horizons Mission: Spacecraft Sent Final Pieces Of Pluto Data Before Heading Deeper Into Kuiper Belt
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has completed sending over the last bit of information from its 2015 flyby of Pluto.
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New Horizons will rendezvous with 2014 MU69 — a 20 to 30 mile wide object located roughly a billion miles from Pluto.
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2014 UZ224 is roughly 8.5 billion miles from the sun and completes one orbit in 1,100 Earth years.
Pluto’s Cold Heart Result Of Nitrogen Ice Being Trapped In Sputnik Planum
According to a new study, nitrogen ice played a major role in the creation of Pluto's heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio.
X-Rays From Pluto, Charon’s Weird Red Spot Examined In New Studies
Two new studies, based on data collected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the New Horizons spacecraft, shed new light on Pluto and its largest moon Charon.
Was Planet Nine Found? Mysterious World Could Destroy Solar System (In Seven Billion Years)
Planet nine could really ruin what we thought were the plans for some of our outer planets.
Sungrazing Comet Seen Plunging To Its Death
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory saw a bright comet, which would usually whip around the sun, get torn apart and vaporized.
New Horizons: Top Discoveries About Pluto From One Year Of Data About The Outer Solar System
The invaluable trove of data that the spacecraft has sent back to Earth is contributing greatly to our understanding of planetary science.
NASA Extends New Horizons Mission To Kuiper Belt After Pluto Flyby
The spacecraft, which provided the first close-up pictures of the former planet, will head deeper into the Kuiper Belt to explore an object which hadn’t been discovered when it launched.
A Subsurface Ocean On Pluto: The Dwarf Planet Continues To Surprise With Latest New Horizons Finding
The dwarf planet's expansion may be due to a slowly freezing ocean.
New Horizons Image Reveals ‘Krun Macula,’ Pluto’s Rugged And Dark Highlands
The image, captured by the spacecraft during its July flyby, shows the southeastern portion of Pluto’s great ice plains bordering dark highlands.
New Horizons' Pluto Flyby Spawns Several Studies, Each Highlighting The Tiny World's Complexity
Pluto may no longer be defined as a planet but it has never been more popular.
Pluto Killing Astronomer Finds 'Planet X', So There Could Be A Ninth Planet After All
The potential discovery of a new planet provides further evidence Pluto is, and always will be, a dwarf planet.
NASA’s New Horizons Photographs Big ‘X’ On Pluto’s Surface
The picture is part of a sequence taken near New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto, with resolutions of about 250-280 feet per pixel.
Pluto Gets Its Own 2016 Stamp, Still Not A Planet Despite Historic New Horizons Mission
Though Pluto has been downsized to a dwarf planet, the U.S Postal Service will commemorate it in 2016.
A Year In Space Photos 2015: Pluto First Look, Water On Mars, EPIC View Of Earth And More
New Horizons' unprecedented images of Pluto in July were among this year's highlights.
Pluto's Space Environment Visualized In New NASA Simulation
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