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Pluto Has an Ocean of Liquid Water Surrounded by a 40-80 km Ice Shell
Universe Today· 5 days agoOn July 14th, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first-ever flyby of Pluto, which once...
Pluto’s ocean is super salty, scientists say
EarthSky· 5 days agoPluto is tiny and far from the sun. The evidence came from the New Horizons spacecraft’s sweep past Pluto in 2015. New research – released ...
U of A scale model solar system extends off campus to add Pluto's broken heart
Arizona Daily Star· 3 days agoPluto has been added to the University of Arizona’s scale-model walking tour of the solar system,...
Pluto: planet or not?
Las Cruces Sun-News via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe year was 2015. After traveling billions and billions of miles through the Erebus, New Horizons encounters the boatman, and the somber lord of the...
Starliner launch with NASA astronauts from Cape Canaveral: How to stream coverage on iPhone, TV
Florida Today via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe launch pad has been the site for historic missions beginning with the Titan rockets in 1965 and...
New "sugar world" discovered in Kuiper Belt
Newsweek· 17 hours agoArrokoth, a distant object in the Kuiper Belt, contains significant amounts of organic molecules, including complex sugars, giving it the new nickname...
Asteroid 'Dinky,' visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, birthed its own moon
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoYet, the spacecraft's autonomous range-finding and tracking system was able to lock onto Dinkinesh,...
Beyond the Planets: The Quirky Underdogs of the Solar System
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids,...
Why scientists say we need to send clocks to the moon — soon
CNN via AOL· 4 days ago“They maintain their own time,” Gramling said. “And most of our operations for spacecraft — even ...
Io Has Been Volcanically Active for its Entire History
Universe Today· 4 days agoJupiter’s moon Io is a volcanic powerhouse. In a recent paper, the team headed by CalTech scientist...
