Did You Know Pluto Has a Heart? Scientists Solve Mystery as to Why

According to the research, Pluto's early history was marked by a cataclysmic event that formed this sweet, stellar, rocky emoji ... Read More

Pluto's heart-shaped scar may offer clues to the frozen world's history

How Pluto's Sputnik Planitia formed remains unknown, but researchers have imagined a body about the size of Switzerland crashing into Pluto at a shallow angle. Read More

A collision with something the size of Arizona could have formed half of Pluto’s ‘heart’

Simulations show that a slow, shallow impact formed the western half of Pluto's heart - and also shed light on the dwarf planet's interior. Read More

How Pluto got its Heart

The most recognizable feature on Pluto is its “heart,” a relatively bright valentine-shaped area known as Tombaugh Regio. How that heart got started is one of the dwarf planet’s deepest mysteries – ... Read More

Pluto TV will rally to make Pluto a planet again on April 1 (it's no joke)

Pluto may have lost its status as a full-fledged planet in 2006, but that doesn't mean it's a joke of a world this April ... other dwarf planets in our solar system (like Ceres, the largest ... Read More

Pluto's 'heart' is yet another bummer for the dwarf planet

Through computer models, the team learned that a collision in Pluto's ancient history, before it was fully formed, could have caused the left side of the heart, a feature known as Sputnik Planitia. Read More

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By Lara Jakes Horses Run Loose Through Central London in Surreal Spectacle Having a team in the world’s richest sports competition might alter how people think of Luton, a place long dogged by a ... Read More

Our Solar System

By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today ... e magnitude of the solar system and the relative ... Read More

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Researchers Invent New Triple-Junction Tandem Solar Cells With World-Record Efficiency Mar. 4 ... to help stem the decline in the nation's bees and butterflies. The new research provides peer ... Read More

The Origin of the Solar System

By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today. THE question of the origin of the solar system is ... Read More

World News

Britain’s Parliament passed contentious legislation to allow the deportation of asylum seekers to the African country, a political victory for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. By Mark Landler and ... Read More

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Farmer’s Defense Force vice president Jos Ubels poses for a portrait at his farm in Anderen, Northern Netherlands, Monday, March 18, 2024. Ubels feels that everything from overbearing ... Read More