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Here’s the Highest Resolution Map of Pluto We’ll Get from New Horizons
Members of the New Horizons team recently conducted a live panel discussion where they talked about the spacecraft's greatest accomplishments,…
Astronomers Find Theoretical Evidence for Distant Gas Giant Planet in Our Solar System
The astronomer known worldwide for vigorously promoting the demotion of Pluto from its decades long perch as the 9th Planet,…
“X” Marks the Spot of Convective Churning on Hot Pluto
“X” marks the spot that’s illustrative of “convective churning” resulting from subsurface planetary heating, as seen in a fascinating new…
10 Interesting Facts About Neptune
Here are ten of the more interesting facts about the gas/ice giant known as Neptune. Some you may know, others…
Possible Ice Volcanoes Discovered on Pluto
Ice Volcanoes on Pluto? The informally named feature Wright Mons, located south of Sputnik Planum on Pluto, is an unusual…
New Horizons Maneuvers Toward Potential Kuiper Belt Target
Even though the New Horizons spacecraft hasn’t officially been approved to do a flyby of a distant Kuiper Belt Object…
Astonishing ‘Snakeskin’ Textured Mountains Discovered on Pluto
The more we learn about Pluto, the weirder and weirder it gets. The newest batch of high resolution Plutonian images…
Global Pluto Mosaic From New Hi Res Imagery Reveals Bewildering Diversity and Complexity
This new global mosaic view of Pluto was created from the latest high-resolution images to be downlinked from NASA’s New…
Eris’ Moon Dysnomia
Ask a person what Dysnomia refers to, and they might venture that it's a medical condition. In truth, they would…
The Dwarf Planet Pluto
Once known as the 9th planet of the Solar System, Pluto is now classified as a "dwarf planet", a Trans-Neptunian…