A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects ...

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary ...

Both probes are the only spacecraft to operate beyond the heliosphere, the sun’s bubble of magnetic fields and particles that extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto. Instruments necessary for ...

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Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...

After almost a decade in space, the New Horizons probe's close encounter with Pluto lasted just six days as it hurtled past at nearly 50,000 kilometres an hour. I was lucky enough to witness ...

2024 — Astronomers have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope. These ...

For me, the owner of a Mission to Pluto, this was an instant-buy. Credit: Swatch I went for the Bordeaux strap to match the bezel and sub dials of my Pluto MoonSwatch. Most of the new straps take ...