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Glitch sees NASA briefly lose touch with Pluto mission
Jul 06, 2015 (AFP)
NASA briefly lost touch this weekend with an unmanned spacecraft on its way to a historic encounter with Pluto, but the US space agency said Monday the glitch h...
New Horizons 'Speeds Up' on Final Approach to Pluto
Jul 03, 2015 (SPX)
With just two weeks to go before its historic July 14 flight past Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft tapped the accelerator late last night and tweaked its p...
NASA Met Unprecedented Challenges Sending Spacecraft to Pluto
Jul 03, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons mission presented challenges like no other, but its goal also was unprecedented. The spacecraft will soon begin a study of the farthest reac...
New Horizons Spacecraft Stays the Course to Pluto
Jul 02, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is getting a final "all clear" as it speeds closer to its historic July 14 flyby of Pluto and the dwarf planet's five moons. Afte...
37 Years after Its Discovery, Pluto's Moon Charon Is Being Revealed
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
In June 1978, U.S. Naval Observatory astronomer James Christy noticed something unusual. He was studying highly magnified photos of Pluto, and Pluto wasn't roun...
Much variety on Pluto's Close Approach Hemisphere, and a Charon dark pole
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft doesn't pass Pluto until July 14 - but the mission team is making new discoveries as the piano-sized probe bears down on the Plut...
Ceres Spots Continue to Mystify in Latest Dawn Images
Jun 25, 2015 (JPL)
The closer we get to Ceres, the more intriguing the distant dwarf planet becomes. New images of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft provide more clues about its m...
One Month from Pluto
Jun 16, 2015 (SPX)
Now within one month of the historic Pluto flyby, NASA's New Horizons team has executed a small but important course correction for the spacecraft, completed up...
Different Faces of Pluto Emerging in New Images from New Horizons
Jun 16, 2015 (SPX)
The surface of Pluto is becoming better resolved as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft speeds closer to its July flight through the Pluto system. A series of new im...
NASA Lets You Experience Pluto Time with New Custom Tool
Jun 09, 2015 (SPX)
Just how dim is the sunlight on Pluto, some three billion miles away? While sunlight is much weaker than it is here on Earth, it isn't as dark as you might expe...
Pluto probably a binary planet with largest moon Charon
Jun 05, 2015 (SPX)
Pluto has already been downgraded from a full-fledged planet. But its woes may not be over. According to a new study, the dwarf planet may, in fact, be a binary...
Hubble finds Pluto's moons tumbling in absolute chaos
Jun 04, 2015 (SPX)
If you lived on one of Pluto's moons, you might have a hard time determining when, or from which direction, the sun will rise each day. Comprehensive analysis o...
New Horizons team completes first search for Pluto system hazards
May 29, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons team has analyzed the first set of hazard-search images of the Pluto system taken by the approaching spacecraft itself - and so far, all loo...
New Horizons sees more detail as it draws closer to Pluto
May 28, 2015 (SPX)
What a difference 20 million miles makes! Images of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are growing in scale as the spacecraft approaches its mysterious t...
NASA's New Horizons Spots Pluto's Faintest Known Moons
May 13, 2015 (SPX)
It's a complete Pluto family photo - or at least a photo of the family members we've already met. For the first time, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has photogr...
Possible Polar Cap on Pluto Detected
Apr 30, 2015 (SPX)
For the first time, images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto - the primary target of the...
Capstone: 2015
Apr 21, 2015 (SPX)
New Horizons remains healthy and on course for its prime Pluto system science in July! On July 14, New Horizons will make its closest approach to Pluto and its ...
NASA's New Horizons Nears Historic Encounter with Pluto
Apr 16, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is three months from returning to humanity the first-ever close up images and scientific observations of distant Pluto and its sy...
Pluto, now blurry, will become clear with NASA flyby
Apr 15, 2015 (AFP)
The best picture we have of Pluto is a blurry, pixelated blob, but that is about to change when a NASA spacecraft makes the first-ever flyby of the dwarf planet...
NASA Extends Campaign for Public to Name Features on Pluto
Apr 10, 2015 (SPX)
The public has until Friday, April 24 to help name new features on Pluto and its orbiting satellites as they are discovered by NASA's New Horizons mission. Anno...
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