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New Horizons Sampling 'Space Weather' on Approach to Pluto
Mar 31, 2015 (SPX)
As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft approaches the Pluto system, its space plasma (also called charged particle) instruments - SWAP and PEPSSI - have already been...
Help Name New Features on Pluto
Mar 26, 2015 (SPX)
In partnership with NASA's New Horizons mission and the SETI Institute, the IAU is endorsing a campaign that will allow the public to participate in naming newl...
Name the features on Pluto and its moon Charon
Mar 23, 2015 (UPI)
NASA scientists and officials at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) are asking for the public's help in naming the geological components of Pluto and Ch...
Science Shorts: Why Pluto?
Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)
What is Pluto? A planetary eccentric? A Kuiper Belt object? A binary? A dwarf planet? It is, of course, all of these - and much more. For the New Horizons team,...
Science Shorts: How Big Is Pluto's Atmosphere?
Mar 02, 2015 (SPX)
How big is Pluto's atmosphere? This is not a typical question one finds in planetary science. Earth's atmosphere has an equivalent thickness - the thickness if ...
Pluto Science, on the Surface
Mar 02, 2015 (SPX)
New Horizons remains healthy and on course for its prime Pluto system science in July! As I write these words I am flying to a dress-rehearsal simulation (calle...
New Horizons Spots Small Moons Orbiting Pluto
Feb 19, 2015 (SPX)
Exactly 85 years after Clyde Tombaugh's historic discovery of Pluto, the NASA spacecraft set to encounter the icy planet this summer is providing its first view...
The View from New Horizons: A Full Day on Pluto-Charon
Feb 15, 2015 (SPX)
This time-lapse "movie" of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, was recently shot at record-setting distances with the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) o...
New Horizons snaps new images of Pluto en route to historic flyby
Feb 05, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft returned its first new images of Pluto on Wednesday, as the probe closes in on the dwarf planet. Although still just a dot along ...
Something Special in the Air
Jan 28, 2015 (SPX)
The earliest stages of our Pluto encounter have begun, and New Horizons remains healthy and on course. Already, the SWAP, PEPSSI and SDC instruments are taking ...
NASA craft set to beam home close-ups of Pluto
Jan 25, 2015 (AFP)
Nine years after leaving Earth, the New Horizons spacecraft is at last drawing close to Pluto and on Sunday was expected to start shooting photographs of the dw...
New Horizons ready for planet's beyond beyond
Jan 21, 2015 (SPX)
The mysterious, distant and yet unexplored by any probe world of Pluto and its moons, located on the edge of our solar system, is about to get visited. NASA's N...
Maybe two more planets in our Solar System: astronomers
Jan 19, 2015 (AFP)
The Solar System has at least two more planets waiting to be discovered beyond the orbit of Pluto, Spanish and British astronomers say. The official list of pla...
NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Begins First Stages of Pluto Encounter
Jan 19, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently began its long-awaited, historic encounter with Pluto. The spacecraft is entering the first of several approach phases t...
Two Earth-sized planets hidden at the edge of our Solar System
Jan 18, 2015 (UPI)
Scientists from Britain and Spain believe there could be at least two planets the size of Earth hiding at the edge of the Solar System. They've observed small, ...
NASA's New Horizons probe begins Pluto observations
Jan 15, 2015 (UPI)
It's been nine years since the New Horizons probe left Earth, and now the craft is gearing up for its encounter with Pluto in July -- the first-ever flyby of th...
Swarms of Pluto-Size Objects Kick Up Dust around Adolescent Sun-Like Star
Dec 12, 2014 (SPX)
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) may have detected the dusty hallmarks of an entire family of Pluto-size objects swarmi...
On Pluto's Doorstep, NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Encounter
Dec 10, 2014 (SPX)
After a voyage of nearly nine years and three billion miles - the farthest any space mission has ever traveled to reach its primary target - NASA's New Horizons...
New Horizons Wakes Up on Pluto's Doorstep
Dec 09, 2014 (SPX)
After a voyage of nearly nine years and three billion miles -the farthest any space mission has ever traveled to reach its primary target - NASA's New Horizons ...
NASA craft to probe Pluto after nine-year journey
Dec 06, 2014 (AFP)
An American probe that will explore Pluto woke up from its slumber Saturday, after a nine-year journey to take a close look at the distant body for the first ti...
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