Tagged: Pluto

To celebrate the 91st anniversary of Clyde Tombaugh’s discovery of Pluto on February 18. 1930, Arizona’s Lowell Observatory is holding a week-long I Heart Pluto festival from February 13 to 18. Anyone can join in the free virtual events, held every evening of the festival....

The discovery of ‘Oumuamua in 2017 ignited a firestorm of debate that continues today. From the shape of its orbit, astronomers knew it was the first known interstellar object to enter our solar system. But the unusual object wasn’t like any asteroid or comet seen...

PLUTO was classed as a planet for three quarters of a century before it was famously stripped of the title in 2006. But who discovered the icy world, and how did they do it? Who discovered Pluto? Pluto was discovered at around 4pm on February...

The smallest and most-distant planet in our solar system is tiny, icy Pluto. It is even smaller than our moon, and it wasn’t discovered until 1930 — the only planet discovered in the twentieth century. Pluto is about one-fifth the diameter of Earth, and it...

SCIENTISTS may be closer than ever to discovering alien life in our own solar system after finding what they believe is a huge OCEAN of liquid water under the surface of Pluto. NASA boffins who sent a probe to photograph the distant dwarf planet have...

There may be a dispute in the scientific community about whether Pluto deserves to be a planet, but researchers have found evidence that the dwarf planet may have had an ocean billions of years ago. The study, published in Nature Geoscience, suggests that Pluto may...

At its heart, Pluto may be a gigantic comet. Researchers have come up with a new theory about the dwarf planet’s origins after taking a close look at Sputnik Planitia, the vast nitrogen-ice glacier that constitutes the left lobe of Pluto’s famous “heart” feature. “We...

2006, sparking a scientific spat that raises basic questions about how we understand the universe Ninth rock from the sun: when Pluto lost its official status as a planet, it set scientists Alan Stern and Mike Brown on an interplanetary collision course. Photograph: AP Imagine...

Scientists think a planet larger than Earth lurks in the far reaches of the solar system. Now a new telescope could confirm their belief and change solar system science You’d think that if you found the first evidence that a planet larger than the Earth...

Huge slushy ocean of life-giving water could signal alien life in our solar system SCIENTISTS may be closer than ever to discovering alien life in our own solar system after finding what they believe is a huge OCEAN of liquid water under the surface of...