Pluto

There's a New Dwarf Planet Far Beyond Pluto's Orbit

Posted in Science on 12th Jul, 2016
by Alex Muller

It takes 700 years to make a complete orbit, making it one of the most remote known objects in the entire solar system of significant size.

New horizons gets the green light from NASA to explore a world beyond pluto

Posted in Hardware on 6th Jul, 2016
by Alex Muller

New Horizons, that showed us Pluto up close for the first time, received NASA approval to forge ahead to an ancient target beyond Pluto.

Pluto could have liquid sub-surface ocean

Posted in Science on 22nd Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller

New Horizons it revealed that the dwarf planet might have a liquid ocean sloshing around under its icy crust. According to a new analysis such an ocean likely still exists today.

Pluto's Interactions with the Solar Wind Are Unique

Posted in Science on 5th Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller

Pluto's atmosphere interacts with the solar wind in a never-before-seen hybrid way, one that's both comet-like and planet-like.

NASA Discovers Strange Hazy Layers On Pluto That 'We've Never Seen Before'

Posted in Science on 8th May, 2016
by Alex Muller

NASA's New Horizons probe has captured the said layers that looked like water ripples.