Data from NASA’s New Horizons mission continues to answer mysteries surrounding Pluto. Since the spacecraft’s flyby last summer, scientists are analyzing large amounts of data being sent back to earth. Scientists suspect mountainous icebergs of water float across an area within Pluto’s heart-shaped region known as Sputnik Planum. According […]
NASA’s New Planetary Defense Office Is Open for Business
As technology advances, NASA is becoming aware of an increasing number of near-Earth objects (NEOs). In an effort to coordinate defense against possible future collisions, NASA just established the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO). The goal of this program is to identify as many NEOs as possible, determine if they […]
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Evidence of Mysterious Planet Nine
Astronomy textbooks may have to be written again to include nine planets as Planet Nine emerges to be a near truth. Through mathematical modeling and computer simulations, researchers at Caltech believe a ninth planet orbits 20 times further away from the sun than Neptune, allowing for an orbital period of […]
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NASA’s New Frontiers’ Race Just Received Two Major Nominees
Titan and Enceladus, two of Saturn’s potentially habitable moons, were added as possibilities to NASA’s next billion-dollar planetary exploration mission, the New Frontiers program. Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, qualifies as one of the few Earth-like worlds in our solar system. Titan’s surface pressure measures slightly greater than Earth, with a […]
