When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Streaks seen in the slightly hazy atmosphere of Pluto may arise because of a phenomenon known as ...

Scientists are starting to get a clearer picture of how Pluto’s strange, hazy atmosphere works. Their latest discovery, concerning waves rippling through the dwarf planet's atmosphere, means that ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been returning some pretty amazing information about the former planet, Pluto. One of its most interesting discoveries was the weird “layered” atmosphere, composed ...

In late August 2006, new discoveries upended a traditional, comfortable way of viewing our solar system: Scientists decided Pluto wasn’t a planet after all. Some space nerds like to mourn Pluto’s loss ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has possibly found the answer to the streaks present in the hazy atmosphere in Pluto: gravity waves. New Horizons flyby in 2015 gave a clearer ...

Thanks to the New Horizons probe of Pluto, we know it has an incredible atmosphere. It’s a gorgeous thing to behold, but scientists have never been able to figure out exactly what’s causing its ...

Wacky worlds The orbits of Pluto's four smaller moons are thrown out of kilter by the gravitational tug-of-war between Pluto and its largest moon Charon, a new study shows. The study, published in the ...

The New Horizons spacecraft has officially entered Pluto’s neighborhood. NASA mission specialist Alex Parker tweeted today that the probe has entered the area of space where Pluto exerts more ...

The Gravity Assist Podcast is hosted by NASA's Director of Planetary Science, Jim Green, who each week talks to some of the greatest planetary scientists on the planet, giving a guided tour through ...

While people on the International Space Station (pictured here) will still float in microgravity, people on Earth will not be weightless on Jan. 4, 2015 as one Internet hoax claims. Don't be fooled by ...