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Pluto may have an ice-spewing 'supervolcano' the size of Yellowstone, New Horizons data reveals
Live Science via Yahoo News· 8 months agoPluto's bladed terrain as seen from NASA's New Horizons during its July 2015 flyby. Demoted planet...
Pluto gained a ‘heart’ after colliding with a planetary body
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Pluto: planet or not?
Las Cruces Sun-News via Yahoo News· 3 weeks 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...
Our solar system map may need an update — the Kuiper belt could be way bigger
Space via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAn illustration of the Kuiper Belt. NASA's New Horizons mission, which encountered Pluto in 2015 is...
Mysterious red 'cap' on Pluto's moon could be 'sticky organic residue'
Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoWhen Nasa’s tiny New Horizons probe travelled three billion miles to Pluto it spotted something very...
Cracks on Pluto's moon Charon may be evidence of a frozen subsurface ocean
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoArtwork of the dwarf planet Pluto (left) and its largest moon Charon. The icy volcanism of Pluto's...
Scientists discern internal structure of mysterious dwarf planet Eris
Reuters via Yahoo News· 7 months agoDwarf planet Eris, similar in size to its better-known cosmic cousin Pluto, has remained an enigma...
Potential discovery of a dozen objects beyond Pluto could reveal a new section of the solar system...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAstronomers may have detected a dozen large objects lurking beyond the Kuiper Belt at the edge of...
What is the smallest known planet?
Space via Yahoo News· 3 months agoPluto and Charon appear in a composite of natural-color images obtained by New Horizons space probe on July 13 and 14, 2015. Image released July 24,...
New Horizons' Alan Stern Reveals How Titanic Trip Compares With Space Travel
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPlanetary scientist Alan Stern said he wasn’t prepared for the “intersections” his oceanic...