Journey to the icy realm beyond Neptune!

Pluto, dwarf planet with heart-shaped feature

Finding the building blocks of life a billion miles beyond #Pluto, by Michael Summers: #UltimaThule #KuiperBelt #NewHorizons

img credit: NASA A little after midnight on New Year's Day, NASA's New Horizons space probe will fly by a Kuiper Belt object officially called 2014 MU69. The object is also known as Ultima Thule in more

PLUTO A PLANET? NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS YES The reason Pluto lost its planet status isn't substantial, as indicated by new research from the University of Central Florida.   In 2006, the International

Plutão visto de perto Crédito da imagem: NASA/NEW HORIZONS A imagem acima é um mosaico que mostra Plutão como nunca antes visto. O registro foi feito em 13 de julho de 2015 quando a sonda News Horizons

Astronomers have spotted a carbon-rich asteroid in the icy region beyond Neptune called the Kuiper Belt — the first such asteroid ever found to be exiled from the inner solar system.

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930. He was an astronomer from the United States Pluto is not very big. It is only half as wide as the United States only 2,300 kilometers wide. This dwarf planet takes

The NASA New Horizons probe took pictures of two objects in the Kuiper Belt and sent them to Earth over a record distance For 27 years, the record of Voyager 1 remained unbroken: The spacecraft, which

We thought it was the cismin Pluto, the closest to the Solar System, to the near past. However, until 1992. After this date, both the size of the Solar System and our planet perception changed from beginning