Pluto’s Atmosphere May Finally Be Starting to Collapse
Pluto’s orbit around the Sun is a long, elliptical journey that lasts 248 Earth years. Right now, Pluto…
11 Years After Historic Flyby, Scientists Discover Giant Landslides on Pluto
In July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft gave us our first look at Pluto’s surface in spectacular detail.…
NASA’s New Horizons Wakes Up From Hibernation Beyond Pluto, More Than 10 Billion Kilometers from Earth
Artist’s rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto and its three moons. Credit: NASA. Whomst has awakened…
Mysterious Compound Detected on Pluto and Titan
A look at the dwarf planet Pluto and Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, baffled astronomers after the James Webb…
Both Pluto and Titan Share a Mystery Molecule That’s Never Been Seen Before
Every element has a unique set of absorption and emission lines that create spectral signatures. These signals are…
APOD: 2026 June 6 – Charon: Moon of Pluto
APOD: 2026 June 6 – Charon: Moon of Pluto Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or…
NASA boss wants Pluto’s planethood restored
(NewsNation) — NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman is here for Pluto, the onetime planet that was demoted to “dwarf…
How one image taken from 3.7 billion miles away proved Earth is a speck in space
Voyager 1’s photographs included Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus. According to NASA’s website, ‘Mars was obscured by…
Pluto’s Moons and Everything You Didn’t Know You Want to Know About Them
Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, with its dark Mordor Macula (left), along with Hydra (top mid), Nix (bottom mid),…
Astronomers Discover Mysterious New World at Edge of the Solar System
A composite image showing the five dwarf planets recognized by the International Astronomical Union, plus the newly discovered…