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PLUTO FROZEN SURFACE
In 2015, NASA's New Horizons flew past Pluto and captured detailed images of its frozen surface. More than a decade later, scientists revisited the images and found evidence that liquid nitrogen may have once flowed across the dwarf planet- Neither a comet, nor asteroid: Mystery interstellar object is cookie-shaped planet shard of Pluto-like world
- Earth moonstruck with its new mini-moon: A look at some spectacular lunar miracles
- NASA space probe 'phones home' in landmark mission to solar system's edgeLaunched in January 2006, New Horizons embarked on its 4 billion-mile journey toward the solar system's edge to study the dwarf planet Plut...02 Jan, 2019, 11.19 AM IST
- 'Iceball' planet about the same mass as Earth discoveredWashington, April 27 (IANS) Scientists have discovered an "extremely cold" new planet about the same mass as Earth, and the same distance f...27 Apr, 2017, 03.30 PM IST
- 2016: A year that unlocked mysteries of our solar system!A newly discovered "great valley" in the southern hemisphere of Mercury provided more evidence that the small planet closest to the Sun is ...27 Dec, 2016, 02.27 PM IST
- Pluto's frozen surface may hide a vast liquid oceanNew York, Nov 17 (IANS) Pluto's frozen surface may conceal a liquid ocean lying deep beneath, suggests new research based on analysis of fe...17 Nov, 2016, 02.42 PM IST
- Pluto may have liquid ocean under ice shell: studyThe pictures New Horizons sent back from its close encounter with the Kuiper Belt's most famous denizen showed that Pluto was much more tha...22 Jun, 2016, 01.44 PM IST
- NASA spacecraft finds blue skies, water ice on PlutoFirst colour images of Pluto's atmospheric hazes beamed by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show that the icy-dwarf planet has blue skies and...09 Oct, 2015, 01.21 PM IST
- NASA captures Pluto's moon Charon in stunning detailCharon's colour palette is not as diverse as Pluto's; most striking is the reddish north polar region, informally named Mordor Macula, NASA...02 Oct, 2015, 02.48 PM IST
- New Pluto images show stunning complexityNew close-up images of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft have unveiled a bewildering variety of surface features that have scientis...11 Sep, 2015, 02.53 PM IST
- NASA spacecraft discovers frozen plains in Pluto's 'heart'NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has discovered a vast, craterless plain in Pluto's 'heart' that appears to be no more than 100 million years...20 Jul, 2015, 03.25 PM IST
- Pluto's atmosphere is billowing away into spaceThe tail, which extends tens of thousands of miles beyond Pluto, is probably the result of solar winds charging up molecules in the planet'...18 Jul, 2015, 01.24 PM IST
- NASA finds Pluto's moons tumbling in absolute chaosTheir variable gravitational field sends the moons tumbling erratically. The effect is strengthened by the football-like shape of the moons.04 Jun, 2015, 12.53 PM IST
- Mangalyaan searching for Earth 2.0! 'Methane discovery' to give alien-seekers heartLife could exist on exoplanets (planets attached to stars other than our Sun). The Kepler spacecraft identified 3601 unconfirmed planetary ...28 Sep, 2014, 12.35 PM IST
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