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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

By Frank Landymore

Scientists are intrigued after spotting a highly unusual celestial object lurking at the very edge of our solar system.

Scientists Detect Mysterious Object in Deep Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Tantalizing Discovery Hints at Possibility of Life on Pluto

By Victor Tangermann

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

Nitwits Claim Wrongly to Have Disproved the Existence of Jupiter

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

Scientists Call for Making Pluto a Planet Again

By Noor Al-Sibai

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.

Guy Who Killed Pluto Now Pushing Yet Another Planet

By Tony Ho Tran

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.

Scientists Puzzled by Giant Red Patches on Pluto

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

Science & Energy

Scientists: There’s Evidence Pluto Has an Underground Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

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.

Science & Energy

NASA Is Seriously Considering a Pluto Orbiter

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Pluto Is a Planet, Insists NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine

By Kristin Houser

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

Scientists: Pluto May be Hiding Alien Life in Buried Oceans

By Victor Tangermann

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.

In 11 Years, Pluto’s Atmosphere Will Be Completely Frozen Solid

By Dan Robitzski

By analyzing thousands of models of the distant solar system's evolution, astronomers think they've unraveled some of the mysteries surrounding Planet Nine.

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Astronomers Predict Planet Nine Has 5x the Earth’s Mass

By Kristin Houser

After whizzing past Pluto in July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is fast approaching Ultima Thule — an odd space rock 6.6 billion kilometers away.

New Horizons Will Fly Past the Most Distant Object We’ve Ever Visited

By Victor Tangermann