Tag Archives: Pluto
Pluto Is a ‘Giant Comet’
Scientists Explain Why Pluto is So Cold
Fly over Pluto and Charon in the latest NASA footage
The New Horizons spacecraft may have moved on from Pluto, making a long march to the Kuiper Belt, but we're still deep in the process of analyzing the data it sent back. Now, for the spacecraft's one-year anniversary of its Pluto flyby, NASA has rele...
‘Asteroid Day’ is a good time to learn about the threat of space rocks
On June 30th, 1908, more than 770 square miles of remote Russian forest were obliterated from the face of the Earth when a relatively small meteor, estimated at only around 400 feet across, unleashed 15 megatons of energy above the Stony Tunguska Riv...
Pluto is Now Officially The Underworld
New Definition of Planets Could Bring Pluto Back
New Horizons scientists want to redefine what planets are
Alan Stern and his fellow New Horizons scientists really want Pluto to become a full-fledged planet again. The principal investigator of NASA's mission to Pluto, along with a few members of his team, want to change the definition of planets. Accordin...
NASA is crowdsourcing the search for exoplanets
To those of you who dream of going to space: Sorry, but that may never happen. However, NASA is once again counting on the public for help understanding what's beyond our world. All we have to do is look at some photos online.
Today marks the launch...
ICYMI: Flapping wind turbines and Dubai’s firefighting jetpacks
Today on In Case You Missed It: The Dubai Civil Defence treated us to an impressive -- and fantastically dramatic -- video demonstrating its 'Dolphin' system which consists of a jetpack connected to a Sea-Doo water craft. The jetpack uses water p...