Liquid Nitrogen May Have Flowed on Pluto’s Surface in Recent Past
Planetary researchers analyzing images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have found evidence that liquid nitrogen may still be…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up Nearly 6 Billion Miles from Earth After Almost a Year in Hibernation
NEED TO KNOW The spacecraft emerged from a 321-day hibernation 5.9 billion miles from Earth, with signals taking…
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…
Scientists Discover Possible Atmosphere Around Tiny Icy World Beyond Neptune
Astronomers have discovered signs of a thin atmosphere surrounding a small icy object beyond the orbit of Neptune,…
Scientists Finally Know How a Bizarre Snowman Shaped Space Rock Formed at the Edge of the Solar system
Artist rendition of Arrokoth using New Horizon spacecraft data. Credit: NASA Deep within the Kuiper belt, some small…
New simulations reveal the hidden forces shaping ‘snowman’ worlds beyond Neptune
On a frigid orbit beyond Neptune, some of the solar system’s smallest worlds project a strange silhouette. Two…
Trans-Neptunian Object Quaoar Has Two Moons, New Study Suggests
The newly-discovered moon has an estimated diameter of 38 km (23.6 miles) and a V magnitude of 28,…
Scientists Discover Weird Structure in Outer Solar System
Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy…
Scientists Discover Weird Structure in Outer Solar System
Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy…
A Mysterious Warp at the Edge of the Solar System May Point to the Existence of a Hidden “Planet Y”
A strange tilt in the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt has scientists wondering if the solar system…
Scientists think they found evidence of a hidden planet beyond Neptune and they are calling it Planet Y
The Kuiper Belt is home to rocky, icy bodies left over from the formation of the solar system.…
Is ‘Oumuamua a piece of ancient solar system? Scientists think it came from ‘exo-Pluto’
1I/’Oumuamua, the first interstellar object to visit our solar system in 2017, belongs to a completely new class…