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New Horizons team publishes first research paper presenting numerous Pluto system findings
Oct 16, 2015 (SPX)
The New Horizons team described a wide range of findings about the Pluto system in its first research paper, published Thursday. From the variety in Pluto's geo...
New Horizons reveals Pluto's striking surface variations and unique moon rotations
Oct 16, 2015 (SPX)
University of Maryland astronomers Silvia Protopapa and Douglas Hamilton are among the authors of the first published paper from the New Horizons flyby, which a...
Pluto's Small Moons Nix and Hydra
Oct 09, 2015 (SPX)
This week's beautiful Charon images remind us that Pluto is not just one body; it's a whole system of worlds. Pluto and its largest moon Charon dance around eac...
New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto
Oct 09, 2015 (SPX)
The first color images of Pluto's atmospheric hazes, returned by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft last week, reveal that the hazes are blue. "Who would have expec...
Blue skies, frozen water detected on Pluto
Oct 08, 2015 (AFP)
Pluto has blue skies and patches of frozen water, according to the latest data out Thursday from NASA's unmanned New Horizons probe, which made a historic flyby...
Pluto's Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History
Oct 02, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best color and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto's largest moon, Charon - and these pictures show a sur...
Layman help sought in solving dwarf planet mysteries
Sep 30, 2015 (AFP)
Throwing open the doors to the hallowed halls of science, stumped researchers welcomed help from the public Wednesday in solving a number of nagging mysteries a...
Pluto at Twilight
Sep 29, 2015 (SPX)
It's approaching dusk on an alien world, and the only eyes to witness the scene belong to a machine that has traveled billions of miles to be here at just this ...
New 'Snakeskin' Image and More from New Horizons
Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)
The newest high-resolution images of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons are both dazzling and mystifying, revealing a multitude of previously unseen topographic and...
Pluto 'Wows' in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama
Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)
The latest images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft have scientists stunned - not only for their breathtaking views of Pluto's majestic icy mountains, streams...
New Pluto Images from New Horizons: It's Complicated
Sep 13, 2015 (SPX)
New close-up images of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal a bewildering variety of surface features that have scientists reeling because of their ...
New photos reveal Pluto's stunning geological diversity: NASA
Sep 12, 2015 (AFP)
New, high-resolution images of the surface of Pluto beamed from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal unparalleled geographical variety -- from soaring mountain...
New Horizons Probes the Mystery of Charon's Red Pole
Sep 10, 2015 (SPX)
Hi, I'm Carly Howett, a senior research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. I've been working on NASA's New Horizons mission sin...
New Horizons Spacecraft begins Intensive Data Downlink Phase
Sep 07, 2015 (SPX)
If you liked the first historic images of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, you'll love what's to come. Seven weeks after New Horizons sped past the Pl...
New Horizons Team Selects Potential Kuiper Belt Flyby Target
Aug 29, 2015 (SPX)
NASA has selected the potential next destination for the New Horizons mission to visit after its historic July 14 flyby of the Pluto system. The destination is ...
Scientists study nitrogen provision for Pluto's atmosphere
Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)
The latest data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal diverse features on Pluto's surface and an atmosphere dominated by nitrogen gas. However, Pluto's sma...
Flowing nitrogen ice glaciers seen on Pluto
Jul 24, 2015 (AFP)
Flowing nitrogen ice glaciers have been glimpsed on the surface of Pluto, along with an unexpectedly thick layer of haze in the atmosphere, NASA scientists said...
New Horizons 'Captures' Two of Pluto's Smaller Moons
Jul 22, 2015 (SPX)
While Pluto's largest moon, Charon, has grabbed most of the lunar spotlight, two of Pluto's smaller and lesser-known satellites are starting to come into focus ...
New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto's 'Heart'
Jul 22, 2015 (SPX)
Pluto's icy mountains have company. NASA's New Horizons mission has discovered a new, apparently less lofty mountain range on the lower-left edge of Pluto's bes...
Mysterious icy plains glimpsed on Pluto's surface
Jul 17, 2015 (AFP)
Smooth, icy plains have been spotted on the surface of Pluto, in the latest images released Friday from a NASA spacecraft that flew by the dwarf planet this wee...
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