Unsolved Mystery: Scientists are Still Debating Whether Pluto is a Planet or Not

Medicine & Technology Nov 08, 2019

In order for a celestial body to be a planet, it should become gravitationally dominant with no other celestial body close to its size except for some of its satellites which, unfortunately, Pluto cannot.

NASA Plans to Re-Visit Pluto Through a New Spacecraft

Nov 06, 2019

The spacecraft will also be designed with the right instrumentation for sizing up the glaciers and determine their depth.

Pluto Must Still Be Classified As A Planet, According To NASA Chief

Aug 28, 2019

A decade after being taken out of the list of planets, NASA Chief says that Pluto must still be considered a planet, like it has always been.

Scientists Discover Frozen Methane Dunes on Pluto

Jul 08, 2019

Something weird is at work on the cold, dark plains of Pluto, where hundreds of regularly spaced ridges look a bit like an alien thumbprint pressed into extraterrestrial ice. Today, though, researchers report in the journal Science that the strange landscape is actually a dune field crafted from methane "sand."

Why Neptune Missed Its Chance For Next ‘Cassini-Like’ Mission For Pluto

Apr 29, 2017

Find out the reason behind the almost mission for Neptune and Pluto here.

NASA’s NAIC 2017 Programme Sponsors Some Futuristic Space Exploration Concepts Like Radical Pluto Hopper

Apr 10, 2017

This year on 6th April NASA chooses twenty-two futuristic concepts under the 2017’s NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program. All these concepts are apart from conventional technology and may revolutionaries the future space exploration

NASA Update: New Horizons Spacecraft Headed Halfway Towards The Kuiper Belt For Its Next Flyby Mission To 2014 MU69

Apr 06, 2017

Eleven years ago from today spacecraft called New Horizons blasted off for Pluto. Now, after completing its journey on Pluto it's moving towards the Kuiper Belt Object(KBO) 2014 MU69. In the recent bulletin, NASA confirmed that Has already traveled half way towards the object.

Pluto To Be Restored Back As Planet

Mar 22, 2017

Several scientists have come up with a campaign to restore Pluto's former identity with a new proposed definition for 'planets'.

NASA Plans To Name Pluto’s Surface Features And Smaller Moons Related To Underworld

Feb 24, 2017

NASA will name Pluto’s mountains, craters, basins and smaller moons something that is related to the underworld.

NASA Latest Announcement: Pluto Might Become The Planetary Member Of Solar System Again

Feb 22, 2017

International Astronomical Union(IAU) declared Pluto as a “Dwarf” in the year 2006. , Alan Stern, Principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto proposed IAU to redefine Pluto as a Planet in the Solar system. Alan prepared a new definition of Planet that declares pluto as a planet alone with other 110 Planetary objects.

New Horizons Data Provide More Details About Pluto

Dec 21, 2015

The New Horizons team presented details of Pluto from data returned by the spacecraft.

NASA Releases Pluto's Most Definitive Portraits Yet

Dec 07, 2015

The photos that were taken by the agency's New Horizons hover during a close flyby last July showcase upclose images of the dwarf planet's bizarre landscape.

New Horizon's Beams Back New Images of Pluto

May 28, 2015

NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft is already on target for an historic rendezvous with Pluto in July, but while it travels it continues to snap new images of the little dwarf planet. The new images reveal even more detail about its complex and high contrast surface.

New App Brings Pluto to the Palm of Your Hand

May 27, 2015

New Horizons is currently closing in on its historic meeting with Pluto, the dwarf planet situated at the very edge of our Solar System, and now a new app will let you follow its progress right on your smartphone or tablet.

NASA's New Horizon Probe Could Send Crowdsourced Data to Aliens

May 23, 2015

The man responsible for the "golden record" on Voyager now wants to beam crowdsourced data to the New Horizons probe to take with it as it leaves the solar system.