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How long does it take Pluto to orbit the sun? Learn more about how this planet makes one lap around our Solar System.
In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...
New James Webb Space Telescope data reveal Pluto's high-altitude haze is a key driver of the climate on the dwarf planet, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on Monday.
Almost 20 years after Pluto was infamously downgraded from its status as a planet, scientists now believe they have discovered a new planet in our solar system. Tech. Smartphones; ...
Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, ... Once the quirky underdog of our solar system, Pluto held planetary status until 2006, when it got a cosmic demotion that still stings space fans.
Reference: “A JWST/DiSCo-TNOs portrait of the primordial Solar System through its trans-Neptunian objects” by Noemí Pinilla-Alonso, Rosario Brunetto, Mário N. De Prá, Bryan J. Holler, Elsa Hénault, ...
Between 2022 and 2023, scientists used James Webb's Near-Infrared Spectrograph to get a full-coverage portrait of the moon's makeup and confirmed the presence of water ice and organic materials ...
Though Pluto has formally been considered a dwarf planet for almost two decades, it still has many lessons left for planetary scientists — including hints about how the solar system formed.