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Animation of Pluto's surface
In July, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time ... about the fascinating dwarf planet at the edge of our solar system. Produced by Alex Kuzoian and Jessica Orwig.
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Astronomer Mike Brown on the Solar System's Outer Reaches
Credit: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images Mike Brown killed Pluto. He had his ... the next big mysteries in our corner of the universe, including why our solar system is such an oddball, whether ...
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Pluto Mission Will Now Study The Distant Solar Wind, Says NASA
NASA has given a new lease of life to its New Horizons mission, which in 2015 got the first-ever close-ups images of dwarf planet Pluto ... its solar wind at the very edges of our solar system.
Newly discovered 'kiss and capture' mechanism explains the formation of Pluto and its largest moon
Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying each ...
Astronomers have for decades tried to figure out how Pluto captured its largest moon. Now, there’s a new theory
Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.