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Putting Pluto's Geology on the Map
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
How to make sense of Pluto's surprising geological complexity? To help understand the diversity of terrain and to piece together how Pluto's surface has formed ...
New Horizons Could Help Us Locate Possible Planets Beyond Neptune
Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)
The recent discovery of evidence of a giant planet lurking in the outskirts of the solar system made by Caltech astronomers, has re-ignited the discussion about...
Pluto's Mysterious, Floating Hills
Feb 05, 2016 (SPX)
The nitrogen ice glaciers on Pluto appear to carry an intriguing cargo: numerous, isolated hills that may be fragments of water ice from Pluto's surrounding upl...
Pluto's blue atmosphere in the infrared
Jan 31, 2016 (SPX)
A new image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is the first look at Pluto's atmosphere in infrared wavelengths, and the first image of the atmosphere made with...
Pluto's widespread water ice
Jan 31, 2016 (SPX)
Data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft point to more prevalent water ice on Pluto's surface than previously thought. A new false-color image, derived from obs...
Charon's Night Side
Jan 25, 2016 (SPX)
After its close approach to Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft snapped this hauntingly beautiful image of the night side of Pluto's largest moon, Charon. Only a...
Predicting planets: The highs and lows
Jan 21, 2016 (AFP)
In the mid-19th century, astronomers hypothesised an extra planet in our solar system, orbiting between the Sun and Mercury. Without ever seeing it, they calcul...
Caltech researchers find evidence of a real ninth planet
Jan 21, 2016 (SPX)
Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which the researchers...
'Ninth planet' may exist in solar system: US scientists
Jan 20, 2016 (AFP)
A previously unknown giant planet may have been discovered lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system, US scientists announced on Wednesday. Nicknamed Pla...
The Voyage of a Lifetime: New Horizons Marks 10 Years Since Launch
Jan 20, 2016 (SPX)
Ten years ago one of the great robotic explorers of our age - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft - rocketed into the sky above the Florida coastline. The tiny probe...
Studying Pluto from 3 Billion Miles Away
Jan 20, 2016 (SPX)
My name is Amanda Zangari, and I've been a postdoc on the New Horizons mission for 2 0.5 years. It's been a wild ride, and it's amazing how the time has flown b...
Possible ice volcano on Pluto has the 'Wright Stuff'
Jan 15, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists with NASA's New Horizons mission have assembled this highest-resolution color view of one of two potential cryovolcanoes spotted on the surface of Pl...
Probing the Mysterious Glacial Flow on Pluto's Frozen 'Heart'
Jan 12, 2016 (SPX)
Written 45 years ago, these words are more appropriate today than Moore could have ever imagined. Greetings, I'm Dr. Orkan Umurhan, a scientist on New Horizons'...
'X' Marks a Curious Corner on Pluto's Icy Plains
Jan 10, 2016 (SPX)
"X" marks the spot of some intriguing surface activity in the latest picture of Pluto returned from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. Transmitted to Earth on Dec....
Particles 'Go with the Flow' on Pluto's Surface
Jan 10, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission have combined data from two instruments to create this composite image of Pluto's informally named Viking Terra area...
Looking Back at the 'Year of Pluto'
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will mark the New Year some 125 million miles (200 million kilometers) beyond Pluto, far removed from the excitement and activity...
Postal Service honors NASA's Pluto discoveries
Dec 31, 2015 (SPX)
The U.S. Postal Service has previewed the New Year's series of stamps highlighting NASA's Planetary Science program, including a do-over of a famous Pluto stamp...
Pluto through a Stained Glass Window
Dec 30, 2015 (SPX)
As New Horizons flew by Pluto, it recorded spectacular images of the icy world's surface using the LORRI and MVIC cameras. It recorded the plasma and dust envir...
New Horizons team releases detailed slice of Pluto
Dec 19, 2015 (SPX)
Five months after NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto to take the first images and measurements of this icy world and its system of satellites, knowl...
Pluto's close-up, now in color
Dec 11, 2015 (SPX)
This enhanced color mosaic combines some of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its July 14 flyby. The pictures are ...
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