When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, scientists expected to see a frozen, inactive world at the edge of the solar system. Instead, they found surprising geological features and ...
PLUTO is hazier than scientists expected and appears to be covered with flowing ice. The team responsible for the New Horizons flyby of Pluto recently released new pictures of the previously ...
Astronomers discovered a distant dwarf planet, 2017 OF21, far beyond Pluto. Taking 25,000 years to orbit the Sun, its methane and nitrogen ice, reddish surface, and extreme distance hint at a hidden ...