243 Results From "pluto"

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered the nature of a strange, blue haze that dominates the climate of Pluto.
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James Webb Peers Into Mysterious Haze Covering Pluto

Using readings from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected chemicals on the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon.
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The James Webb Telescope Just Made a Fascinating Discovery About Pluto’s Huge Icy Moon

Scientists are intrigued after spotting a highly unusual celestial object lurking at the very edge of our solar system.
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Scientists Detect Mysterious Object in Deep Solar System

If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would do it.
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Astronomer Explores Possibility of Launching Bad People Into Sun

Astronomers have detected a promising sign of a ninth planet lurking at the the farthest reaches of the Solar System.
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Scientists Say They May Have Spotted a Huge Hidden Planet Deep in Our Solar System

Astronomers have detected a gigantic comet, and it's spewing gases from its nucleus as it shoots through our cosmic neighborhood.
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Scientists Intrigued by Comet With Jets Blasting From Its Interior

The Trump administration is expected to slash the space agency's science budget by as much as 50 percent, Ars Technica reports.
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Trump Admin Reportedly Plotting to Slash NASA Budget by 50 Percent

Why the New York Times Claimed Life Had Been Found on Mars
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Why the New York Times Claimed Life Had Been Found on Mars

The gas-spewing body spotted by the James Webb is a type of object known as a centaur that is somewhere between a comet and an asteroid.
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James Webb Telescope Spots Bizarre Object That’s Spewing Out Jets of Gases

There’s Something Seriously Weird About This Supernova
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There’s Something Seriously Weird About This Supernova

Clumps of dark matter may actually be interacting with light just a teensy bit, enough to dim the light of stars it passes in front of.
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Astronomers Suggest That Entire Stars Are Being Obscured by Giant “Lampshades” of Dark Matter

While scouring images taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft of Pluto's surface, a team of astronomers made a tantalizing discovery: ice volcanoes.
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Tantalizing Discovery Hints at Possibility of Life on Pluto

Scientists have long been hunting for a hidden planet in our Solar System — and new research suggests that it's out there. 
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Scientists Say They’ve Found More Evidence of Hidden Planet in Our Solar System

Pluto may be reinstated to its position as a planet — and other celestial bodies may join it. 
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Scientists Call for Making Pluto a Planet Again

NASA has announced it's intending to change the New Horizons mission's primary target from studying Kuiper Belt objects to heliophysics.
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After 15 Year Journey, NASA Suddenly Redirecting Deep Space Mission to New Target

The potential detection of objects lying beyond the Kuiper Belt's limits may upend our understanding of what encircles our solar system.
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Scientists Find Evidence for Large Unknown Objects in Distant Solar System

A startup called Telly is planning to give away a whopping 500,000 55-inch TVs to consumers with a second screen that shows ads.
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Company Giving Away TVs With Second Screen That Shows Constant Ads

Caltech astronomer and Pluto killer Mike Brown claims he has found evidence of a potential planet in the Kuiper Belt roughly 100 billion miles from Earth.
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Guy Who Killed Pluto Now Pushing Yet Another Planet

A newly discovered ring system belonging to the dwarf planet Quaoar is so large that astronomers are rethinking previously theorized limits on ring sizes.
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Astronomers Amazed By Tiny Object With Huge Planetary Ring

A team of researchers have recreated the conditions in Pluto's atmosphere in a lab to investigate what's behind the red spots observed by New Horizons.
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Scientists Puzzled by Giant Red Patches on Pluto