Pluto is one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, which we can’t even call a planet anymore. Thanks to NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft data and digital elevation models, scientists have created impressive movies, in which we fly ...

Now Stern is heading up a team of NASA scientists who have proposed a new definition of planets that would do more than just reinstate the icy dwarf planet with the big heart to its former glory, according to Gizmodo. ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took the image at a high phase angle – that is, with the sun on the other side of Pluto, as viewed by New Horizons. Seen here, sunlight filters through and illuminates Pluto’s complex atmospheric haze ...

The vacuum of the universe is a thousand times emptier than a laboratory vacuum. But the sun releases a constant stream of particles called the solar wind and denser clouds of particles or coronal mass ejections (CME) with magnetic fields. ...

NASA informs that New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby – and the best close-ups of Pluto that humans may see for decades Each ...