Pluto

The planet Pluto is pictured in a handout image made up of four images from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) taken in July 2015 combined with color data from the Ralph instrument to create this enhanced color global view. NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Handout. Credit: Reuters

Pluto Is Stepping Out of the Shadows

V. Sasi Kumar 08/08/2020

Until the late 20th century, many of us learnt...

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First Results From Voyager 2, the Spacecraft at the Edge of Interstellar Space

Jatan Mehta 04/11/2019

The twin Voyagers' observations have given us our first...

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From Volcanoes on Mars to Scarps on Mercury – How Places on Other Worlds Get Their Names

David Rothery 02/01/2019

Naming features on other worlds is a trickier issue...

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Why NASA Chose Senegal to Find out More About an Asteroid in Outerspace

David Baratoux 14/09/2018

Senegal has made great strides in astronomy and planetary...

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New Dwarf Planet Found Far Beyond Pluto

Sandhya Ramesh 12/07/2016

The discovery of RR245 should not come as a...

An artist's depiction of a Kuiper Belt Object. Credit: NASA

Does the Solar System Really Have a Ninth Planet?

Sandhya Ramesh 26/04/2016

Since it is so far from us, Planet Nine,...

Pluto, as shot by the MVIC camera on board the New Horizons probe. Source: NASA

Stunning New Colour Image of Pluto Released

Vasudevan Mukunth 25/09/2015

In 16 million pixels, it shows the best view...