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Zooming in on Pluto's Pattern of Pits
Dec 11, 2015 (SPX)
On July 14 the telescopic camera on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took the highest resolution images ever obtained of the intricate pattern of "pits" across a ...
New Visualization of Space Environment at Pluto
Dec 09, 2015 (SPX)
This video shows a simulation of the space environment all the way out to Pluto in the months surrounding New Horizons' July 2015 flyby. At the time, scientists...
New Horizons' catches a wandering Kuiper Belt Object not far off
Dec 07, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently took the closest images ever of a distant Kuiper Belt object - demonstrating its ability to observe numerous such bodies...
New Horizons Returns the First of Its Very Best Images of Pluto
Dec 05, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first few of a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby - and this image sequenc...
Pluto surface details revealed in best images yet
Dec 05, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first few of a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby - and this image sequenc...
Rotational movies of Pluto and Charon
Dec 04, 2015 (SPX)
It's amazing that we've come such a long way in our exploration of the Pluto system, and it's only been five months since the close flyby of New Horizons. From ...
New Horizons documents one rotation of Charon
Nov 25, 2015 (SPX)
On approach to the Pluto system in July 2015, the cameras on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured images of the largest of Pluto's five moons, Charon, rotati...
Tyson weighs in on New Horizons' Pluto discoveries
Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)
The New Horizons spacecraft completed its 3 billion mile journey to Pluto in July and the discoveries continue to pour in every week as NASA scientists receive ...
Composite images compare sunlit faces of Pluto
Nov 20, 2015 (UPI)
New composite images released by NASA show Pluto lit up by the sun. The images were taken by New Horizons' cameras as the probe approached the dwarf planet and ...
Astronomers spot most distant object in the solar system
Nov 11, 2015 (UPI)
As of right now, it is the most distant object in the solar system, a sizable space rock 103 times farther away from the sun than the Earth. The object remains ...
New Horizons Yields Wealth of Discovery from Pluto Flyby
Nov 10, 2015 (SPX)
From possible ice volcanoes to twirling moons, NASA's New Horizons science team is discussing more than 50 exciting discoveries about Pluto at this week's 47th ...
Ammonia-Water Slurry May Swirl Below Pluto's Icy Surface
Nov 10, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers propose an ammonia-water slurry as the basis for Pluto's newly discovered geologic activity and possible volcanism, and offer a new method to predic...
New Horizons Completes Targeting Maneuvers
Nov 06, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has successfully performed the last in a series of four targeting maneuvers that set it on course for a potential January 2019 en...
A Full View of Pluto's Stunning Crescent
Oct 30, 2015 (SPX)
In September, the New Horizons team released a stunning but incomplete image of Pluto's crescent. Thanks to new processing work by the science team, New Horizon...
New Horizons on track to pass Kuiper 2014 MU69 within 12000 kms in 2019
Oct 30, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has successfully completed the third in a series of four maneuvers propelling it toward an encounter with the ancient Kuiper Belt...
The Youngest Crater on Charon
Oct 30, 2015 (SPX)
New Horizons scientists have discovered a striking contrast between one of the fresh craters on Pluto's largest moon Charon and a neighboring crater dotting the...
New Horizons Team Reports Success In Second Of Four Targeting Maneuvers
Oct 27, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has carried out the second in a series of four maneuvers propelling it toward an encounter with the ancient Kuiper Belt object 20...
Maneuver directs New Horizons towards next potential target
Oct 24, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has carried out the first in a series of four initial targeting maneuvers designed to send it toward 2014 MU69 - a small Kuiper B...
Mysterious Pluto moon Kerberos imaged by New Horizons
Oct 23, 2015 (SPX)
Images of Pluto's tiny moon Kerberos taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft -and just sent back to Earth this week - complete the family portrait of Pluto's mo...
Scientists predict cool new phase of superionic ice
Oct 22, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have predicted a new phase of superionic ice, a special form of ice that could exist on Uranus and Neptune, in a theoretical study performed by a tea...
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