Pluto

While scouring images taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft of Pluto's surface, a team of astronomers made a tantalizing discovery: ice volcanoes.

Life on Pluto

"We found a field of very large icy volcanoes that look nothing like anything else we have seen in the solar system."

Tantalizing Discovery Hints at Possibility of Life on Pluto

A meme has been circulating since 2021 trying to disprove the existence of gas planets like Jupiter — but NASA and others disproved the conspiracy.

Jupiter Jokesters

Nice try, Flat Earthers! 

Nitwits Claim Wrongly to Have Disproved the Existence of Jupiter

Pluto may be reinstated to its position as a planet — and other celestial bodies may join it. 

Free Galileo

It all depends on your definition of "planet."

Scientists Call for Making Pluto a Planet Again

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.

RIP Pluto

Here's why he believes the object is much more worthy of planet status than Pluto. 

Guy Who Killed Pluto Now Pushing Yet Another Planet

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.

Out Damned Spot

We still don't know why they exist.

Scientists Puzzled by Giant Red Patches on Pluto

NASA astronomer Alan Stern tells Discover Magazine that the discovery of liquid oceans on other worlds is among the "most profound discoveries" in space.

Several Blue Dots

We used to think Earth was the only planet in the solar system with a liquid ocean. It's not — and that could change everything.

A NASA Scientist Heralds "One of the Most Profound Discoveries" of the Space Age

According to a new study, Pluto may have started its life as a hot world with a massive underground ocean of liquid water.

Hot Planet Time Machine

A radical new theory argues that Pluto harbors a vast underground ocean of water, like Earth — and even, possibly, life.

Scientists: There's Evidence Pluto Has an Underground Ocean

NASA just funded a study to determine the feasibility of a Pluto orbiter, which would provide a much closer look at the dwarf planet than New Horizons did.

Not a Planet

Dwarf planet or not, NASA wants to get a much closer look at Pluto.

NASA Is Seriously Considering a Pluto Orbiter

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine believes Pluto is a planet — but not because he thinks the scientific definition of planethood is flawed.

Team Planet

"It’s the way I learned it and I’m committed to it."

Pluto Is a Planet, Insists NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine

A new study found that liquid-water subsurface oceans on Pluto are kept from freezing over thanks to an insulating layer of gas hydrates.

Icy Dwarf

Icy worlds across the universe could be covered in liquid-water oceans.

Scientists: Pluto May be Hiding Alien Life in Buried Oceans

It's about to be Winter on Pluto. When it is, scientists predict that Pluto's entire atmosphere will condense into a layer of frost.

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