Pluto

Secrets behind Pluto’s dunes revealed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 2, 2018
Scientists have discovered dunes on Pluto, and say they are likely to have been formed of methane ice grains released into its rarefied atmosphere.

By David Aragorn
Pluto May Actually Be A ‘Giant Comet,’ New Study Suggests 0
- From Around the Web
- May 30, 2018
The dwarf planet was reclassified once before in 2006.

By David Aragorn
Did you Know There are X-rays Coming from Pluto? That’s Strange, What’s Causing it?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 11, 2017
Once held to be the outermost planet of the Solar System, Pluto‘s designation was changed by the International Astronomical Union in 2006, owing to the discovery of many new Kuiper Belt Objects that were comparable in size. In spite of this, Pluto remains a source of fascination and a focal point of much scientific interest. And even after the historic flyby conducted by the New Horizons probe in July of 2015, many mysteries remain.

By David Aragorn
Does Pluto Have The Ingredients For Life?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 2, 2017
Pluto has long been viewed as a distant, cold and mostly dead world, but the first spacecraft to pass by it last year revealed many surprises about this distant dwarf planet.

By David Aragorn
NASA Mystery: Scientists Baffled By Pluto’s Intense X-Ray Emissions –“No Natural Means for Emitting Them”0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 14, 2017
Something very odd is going on around Pluto.

By David Aragorn
New Horizons Data From Pluto Finally Arrives, And Astronomers Are ‘Putting A Bow Around It’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 27, 2017
NASA’s New Horizons space probe has been busy the past few years. After traveling roughly 4.67 billion miles to reach the dwarf planet Pluto’s system in July of 2015, the spacecraft is now moving on to its next target, an object discovered in the Kuiper Belt by the Hubble Space Telescope in June of 2014 and dubbed 2014 MU69.

By David Aragorn
Could there be life in Pluto’s ocean?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 6, 2016
Pluto is thought to possess a subsurface ocean, which is not so much a sign of water as it is a tremendous clue that other dwarf planets in deep space also may contain similarly exotic oceans, naturally leading to the question of life, said one co-investigator with NASA’s New Horizon mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

By David Aragorn
X-ray mystery shrouds Pluto 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 11, 2016
Despite wrong conditions, handful-plus of photons detected streaming from dwarf planet

By David Aragorn
Pluto’s ‘heart’ sheds light on a possible buried ocean 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 23, 2016
Ever since NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto last year, evidence has been mounting that the dwarf planet may have a liquid ocean beneath its icy shell.

By David Aragorn
New Horizons discovery raises solar wind riddle around Pluto 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 15, 2016
The New Horizons probe has uncovered another Plutonian mystery – this time involving the solar wind.

By David Aragorn