When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Streaks seen in the slightly hazy atmosphere of Pluto may arise because of a phenomenon known as ...

Scientists are starting to get a clearer picture of how Pluto’s strange, hazy atmosphere works. Their latest discovery, concerning waves rippling through the dwarf planet's atmosphere, means that ...

Pluto’s wispy atmosphere is seen in this photo, which was captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft shortly after its closest approach to the dwarf planet on July 14, 2015. NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI ...

The Gravity Assist Podcast is hosted by NASA's Director of Planetary Science, Jim Green, who each week talks to some of the greatest planetary scientists on the planet, giving a guided tour through ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has possibly found the answer to the streaks present in the hazy atmosphere in Pluto: gravity waves. New Horizons flyby in 2015 gave a clearer ...

Scientists may finally have an explanation for Pluto's streak-filled, hazy atmosphere. After analyzing data from the New Horizons probe that flew past Pluto in July 2015, scientists now think the ...

In 2015, NASA’s New Horizons probe flew by Pluto as it orbited the Sun in the solar system’s Kuiper Belt. New Horizons captured seminal images of the dwarf planet, including many highlighting one of ...

Imagine throwing a baseball. Easy, right? Maybe you've already done it a few times. Now imagine throwing a baseball on the moon. Maybe you've seen enough videos of astronauts bouncing around up there ...

In less than a year, Pluto has gone from a minor object far away from the Sun to a key piece in our understanding of how the Solar System formed, as evidence by the publication of five new papers in ...

In late August 2006, new discoveries upended a traditional, comfortable way of viewing our solar system: Scientists decided Pluto wasn’t a planet after all. Some space nerds like to mourn Pluto’s loss ...

The universe really is expanding — astronomers are proposing to rewrite the textbooks to say that our solar system has 12 planets rather than the nine memorized by generations of schoolchildren.