Again, the researchers have an explanation — white nitrogen ... exits the Kuiper Belt in 2028 or 2029. The post How Pluto Got Its Heart appeared first on Explorersweb.

Because Pluto's heart has a lower mass than the rest of the dwarf planet's surface, it should have gradually migrated toward the pole as Pluto rotated over millennia. But the formation is near the ...

Pluto — famous for being reclassified as a dwarf planet — might not have a heart of ice after all. In fact, every bit of Pluto was assumed to be frozen over considering its distance from the Sun.

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

Speakers Diane Phelps Budden and Kevin Schindler will present “Tiny Pluto Has a Big Heart” at the Sedona Heritage Museum on ...

But we have reason to believe Pluto's heart is a bit warmer than the ice the covers it. Produced by Alex Kuzoian Follow BI Video: On Facebook More from Science NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took ...