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Multiple Discoveries from NASA's New Horizons Pluto Mission
Jul 16, 2015 (SPX)
Icy mountains on Pluto and a new, crisp view of its largest moon, Charon, are among the several discoveries announced Wednesday by the NASA's New Horizons team,...
Charon's Surprising Youthful and Varied Terrain
Jul 16, 2015 (SPX)
Remarkable new details of Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July...
Pluto's close-ups to offer high-resolution views
Jul 15, 2015 (AFP)
Pluto's surface has long been a blur to sky watchers on Earth, but a NASA spacecraft on Wednesday should provide the first high-resolution images of the distant...
US spacecraft survives close encounter with Pluto
Jul 15, 2015 (AFP)
An unmanned NASA spacecraft whizzed by Pluto, beaming to scientists a message that it survived its historic encounter before sending back the closest look ever ...
US spacecraft sending back data for Pluto close-up
Jul 15, 2015 (AFP)
Scientists are receiving data that will offer the closest look ever of Pluto later Wednesday, after the unmanned NASA spacecraft whizzed by the distant dwarf pl...
NASA's Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter
Jul 15, 2015 (SPX)
After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface - roughly the...
Icy mountain ranges seen on Pluto after NASA flyby
Jul 15, 2015 (AFP)
Icy mountain ranges can be seen rising from Pluto's surface, according to the first close-up images released Wednesday from NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft afte...
10 year journey to Pluto achieves historic encounter
Jul 15, 2015 (SPX)
After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface - roughly the...
US spacecraft whizzes past Pluto in historic flyby
Jul 14, 2015 (AFP)
An unmanned NASA spacecraft whizzed by Pluto on Tuesday, making its closest approach in the climax of a decade-long journey to explore the dwarf planet for the ...
Pluto Flyby Completed - Images Tomorrow
Jul 13, 2015 (AFP)
An unmanned NASA spacecraft whizzed by Pluto on Tuesday, making its closest approach in the climax of a decade-long journey to explore the dwarf planet for the ...
Last Portrait of Pluto's Puzzling Spots
Jul 12, 2015 (SPX)
Three billion miles from Earth and just two and a half million miles from Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has taken its best image of four dark spots that...
NASA craft discovers heart shape on Pluto as flyby nears
Jul 12, 2015 (AFP)
There's a near-perfect heart shape on Pluto's rusty red surface. The dwarf planet is dotted with bright points which may be ice caps, and a mysterious dark shap...
Houston, We Have Geology
Jul 11, 2015 (SPX)
It began as a point of light. Then, it evolved into a fuzzy orb. Now - in its latest portrait from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft - Pluto is being revealed as a...
Student Dust Counter Provides Clues About Solar System
Jul 10, 2015 (VOA)
"We are stardust" is more than a lyric in a hit 1970's song. It's actually true. Our solar system began as flecks of star-created gas and dust that drew togethe...
NASA Missions Have Their Eyes Peeled on Pluto
Jul 10, 2015 (JPL)
What's icy, has "wobbly" potato-shaped moons, and is the world's best-known dwarf planet? The answer is Pluto, and NASA's New Horizons is speeding towards the e...
Pluto Flyby Begins
Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)
After a more than nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to Pluto, it's showtime for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, as the flyby sequence of science observation...
Neptune's badly behaved magnetic field
Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)
Combining 26-year old data with supercomputer simulations, a team of scientists at Imperial College London have modelled Neptune's magnetic field in detail for ...
New Map of Pluto
Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)
This is the latest map of Pluto created from images taken from June 27 to July 3 by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on New Horizons, combined with ...
Ralph Is Ready for Historic Pluto Flyby
Jul 07, 2015 (SPX)
The Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. Ralph camera aboard the New Horizons mission will provide the closest images we have ever seen of Pluto when the space...
In the Right Place at the Right Time for Pluto Observations
Jul 07, 2015 (SPX)
In a special celestial event visible only from the Southern Hemisphere, Pluto passed directly between a distant star and the Earth on the morning of June 30, Ne...
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