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 ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been returning some pretty amazing information about the former planet, Pluto. One of its most interesting discoveries was the weird “layered” atmosphere, composed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to the New Horizons probe of Pluto, we know it has an incredible atmosphere. It’s a gorgeous thing to behold, but scientists have never been able to figure out exactly what’s causing its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Watch a ball throw on each planet in our solar system, plus Pluto and the moon, below. Imagine throwing a baseball. Easy, right? Maybe you've already done it a few times. Now imagine throwing a ...