New Horizons Pluto mission blinks out just days from goal
Before you start having a heart attack at the idea that we won't get any closer to Pluto, take heed - New Horizons is now back online. For just a short period of time - right around an hour - the craft...
View ArticleNASA’s New Horizons sends back more Pluto pics
NASA has released the latest batch of photos its New Horizons spacecraft has taken of the dwarf planet Pluto, and in them we see a larger and somewhat less fuzzy version of the two shots from last...
View ArticleNASA shows off Pluto’s stunning Whale of a Feature
NASA's New Horizons probe is currently studying Pluto and scientists on the project have released a flat projection of visible parts of the sphere of Pluto that shows off a very interesting feature of...
View ArticleWe can now watch Pluto rotate in space
As New Horizons begins its final approach toward Pluto, NASA presents a Google Earth-mapped surface of the spinning space body. The final approach toward the planet has begun - this NASA-led mission...
View ArticleNew Horizon’s weirdest cargo will warm your heart
Aboard the New Horizons craft as it edges closer to Pluto than we've ever been before is carried the ashes of its discoverer. Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh was the man that discovered our celestial...
View ArticlePluto approaching: New Horizons’ scientist answers 4 questions
New Horizons' Ralph Instrument Scientist Dennis Reuter speaks up today about th eminent approach of the mission to Pluto. Also speaking on his position with the Goddard Space observatory, Reuter tapped...
View ArticleAs New Horizons passes Pluto, 22-hours of silence
NASA won't see any images or get any data from Pluto flyby mission New Horizons for 22 hours after it begins its closest flyby of the dwarf planet. There are two reasons for what's effectively a radio...
View ArticleNew Horizons proves Pluto is larger than we thought
The problem with deducing composition and sizes through a telescope is that you won't really know how accurate or far off your models are until you get a first-hand, or even a second-hand close up. For...
View ArticleSee the best color image of Pluto taken just before New Horizons flyby
As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft approached Pluto for the much-anticipated flyby at 7:49 AM ET this morning, the agency released the final and best color image of Pluto yet to be taken. And because...
View ArticleWe’ve passed Pluto – where are the photos?
Now that we've passed Pluto, you might be wondering why we're not looking at brand new up-close photos of all sorts. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has an antenna that must remain stationary at all...
View ArticleNew Horizons phones home to say it’s OK
Pluto may be the god of death, but that has no bearing on NASA's greatest achievement yet. Dozens of sleep-deprived, and most likely teary-eyed, scientists and engineers at NASA awaited in both...
View ArticleThe best Pluto photos from New Horizons so far
New Horizons successfully reaches and passes Pluto, taking photos during a 22-hour period of observation. What we're doing here is collecting the best of the best - which, incidentally, may end up...
View ArticleNew Horizons reveal Pluto’s wildly varied landscape
This morning the folks behind NASA's New Horizons mission revealed the heart of Pluto. What the New Horizons crew revealed today is a number of deep differences in areas on different sides of the...
View ArticlePluto: second icy mountain range revealed in new image
Last week, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft gave us some up-close, detailed images of Pluto's landscape and geology, including a look at an icy mountain range. Now, only a few days later, NASA has...
View ArticleDark side of the Pluto captured by New Horizons
Today NASA reveals an image of Pluto that captures the night side of the dwarf planet. Unlike our own moon, the dark side of Pluto isn't quite such a prevailing "mystery" as it rotates. We've...
View ArticleNew Horizons’ next target after Pluto flyby revealed
NASA spacecraft New Horizons completed its historic flyby of dwarf planet Pluto back in July, so what's next for the little spacecraft? It looks like it's going to be 2014 MU69, a comet-like object...
View ArticleNASA’s New Horizons sends home new photos of Pluto
It's been some time since NASA's New Horizons probe completed its flyby of Pluto, but the agency has just released the first batch of latest images to get sent back to Earth. Among the stunning new...
View ArticleNASA’s newest Pluto photos are breathtaking
Pluto photos continue to be shipped from New Horizon's flyby completed earlier this year, and today's are just fantastic. What you're about to see is a set of photo captured just 15 minutes after the...
View ArticleNew Pluto photos are strangest yet: “Snakeskin” topography
A set of photos released by NASA today shows off a piece of landscape that looks like snakeskin, hundreds of miles long. "[This new landscape] looks more like tree bark or dragon scales than geology,"...
View ArticlePluto’s sky and ice revealed: blue and red
The sky on Pluto is blue, NASA showed the world today, and the ground has water ice. While other sorts of more "volatile" ices appear to mask the water ice found around the planet, some water ice can...
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