Pluto Mission Will Now Study The Distant Solar Wind, Says NASA

2023-10-04 05:04 AM by Jessica Irvine

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft approaches dwarf planet Pluto and its moon Charon in this artist’s … [+] impression. getty NASA has given a new lease of life to its New Horizons mission, which in 2015 got the first-ever close-ups images of dwarf planet Pluto. Thought to be a target for cost savings, according to Space.com, …

A Second Earth-Like Planet May Exist In The Solar System, Say Scientists

2023-09-20 06:04 AM by Jessica Irvine

Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like planet lurking in the distant … [+] Kuiper Belt, well past the orbit of Neptune (artistic illustration). Fernando Peña D’Andrea There may be an undiscovered planet in the outer solar system whose presence is revealed by the strange orbit of objects beyond the eighth planet Neptune. …