The year was 2015. After traveling billions and billions of miles through the Erebus, New Horizons encounters the boatman, and the somber lord of the departed. The spacecraft could have been called ...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Many Americans grew up with this as the definitive planetary lineup and created clever mnemonic devices to memorize them in ...
For many people, the definition of a planet was only made clear in 2006, when the spunky world Pluto was demoted from a planet to a dwarf planet. Now, a team of astronomers is pushing for “planet” ...
From the time of its discovery in 1930 until 1992, Pluto was a happy, full-fledged planet. A little odd maybe with its tipped, eccentric orbit and tiny size, but the ninth planet just the same. That ...
Researchers estimate that the number of captured free-floating planets in the outer solar system with mass strictly greater than that of Mars is ∼1.2 and that the number of such planets with a strict ...
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Pluto's days, though they drag on a bit at around 153 hours, are nothing compared to its years. Pluto's orbit takes 248 Earth ...
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) – Each year on Feb. 18, a whole day is dedicated to the former planet Pluto. Pluto was once the ninth planet in the solar system, but striped of that title back in 2006. Now ...