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Final Pre-Pluto Annual Checkout Begins
Jun 18, 2014 (SPX)
Horizons' annual checkout - its eighth since launch in 2006 and last before next year's rendezvous with Pluto - kicks off this week with some onboard subsystem ...
Hubble Begins Search Beyond Pluto For Potential Flyby Targets
Jun 17, 2014 (SPX)
After careful consideration and analysis, the Hubble Space Telescope Time Allocation Committee has recommended using Hubble to search for an object the Pluto-bo...
Cracks in Pluto's Moon Could Indicate it Once Had an Underground Ocean
Jun 16, 2014 (SPX)
If the icy surface of Pluto's giant moon Charon is cracked, analysis of the fractures could reveal if its interior was warm, perhaps warm enough to have maintai...
Assessing Pluto from Afar
Jun 10, 2014 (SPX)
CAPTION with LINK What observations can the New Horizons team expect from Earth? When New Horizons speeds past Pluto in July 2015, its set of sophisticated came...
Dwarf planet 'Biden' identified in an unlikely region of our solar system
Mar 28, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Astronomers believe they have discovered a dwarf planet beyond Pluto, 7 billion miles from Earth. The new discovery is already causing scientists to reconsider ...
Planet X myth debunked
Mar 16, 2014 (AFP)
It was an elusive planet that for 200 years appeared to explain Uranus's wobbly orbit. And there was the sister sun theorized to be near our solar system that c...
WISE Finds Thousands Of New Stars But No Planet X
Mar 10, 2014 (JPL)
After searching hundreds of millions of objects across our sky, NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has turned up no evidence of the hypothesized ...
New Horizons Reaches the Final 4 AU
Mar 03, 2014 (SPX)
New Horizons sailed past another milepost today when the NASA spacecraft moved to within four astronomical units (AU) of Pluto - which is less than four times t...
Thanks America, New Horizons Ahead
Feb 11, 2014 (SPX)
New Horizons completed a quick, two-week maintenance wakeup on Jan. 17 and is back in hibernation. We'll wake the craft again in mid-June for our last active ch...
Countdown to Pluto
Jan 17, 2014 (SPX)
Are we there yet? One of the fastest spacecraft ever built - NASA's New Horizons - is hurtling through the void at nearly one million miles per day. Launched in...
A Busy Year Begins for New Horizons
Jan 10, 2014 (SPX)
With Pluto encounter operations now just a year away, the New Horizons team has brought the spacecraft out of hibernation for the first of several activities pl...
On the Path to Pluto, 5 AU and Closing
Oct 29, 2013 (SPX)
Pluto isn't quite the next exit on New Horizons' voyage through the outer solar system, but the destination is definitely getting closer. Today the NASA spacecr...
The Sounds of New Horizons
Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)
What does New Horizons say when it calls home? Nothing, without the help of software that transforms zeros and ones from New Horizons' computers into images, in...
SwRI study finds that Pluto satellites' orbital ballet may hint of long-ago collisions
Oct 16, 2013 (SPX)
A large impact 4 billion years ago may account for the puzzling orbital configuration among Pluto's five known satellites, according to a new model developed by...
Archival Hubble Images Reveal Neptune's Lost Inner Moon
Oct 11, 2013 (SPX)
Neptune's tiny, innermost moon, Naiad, has now been seen for the first time since it was discovered by Voyager's cameras in 1989. Dr. Mark Showalter, a senior r...
New Horizons - Late in Cruise, and a Binary Ahoy
Aug 26, 2013 (SPX)
New Horizons has just completed a summer of intensive activities and entered hibernation on Aug. 20. The routine parts of the activities included thorough check...
Pluto Science Conference Exceeds Expectations
Aug 06, 2013 (SPX)
Compressing eight decades of discoveries into five days, more than 100 scientists met last week at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel,...
SciTechTalk: Grab your erasers, there are more moons than we thought
Jul 21, 2013 (UPI)
Quick: What's the total number of moons orbiting planets in our solar system? Don't worry if the answer's not on the tip of your tongue but it's still the Trivi...
NASA Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon
Jul 16, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the giant planet. The moon...
NASA finds new moon on Neptune
Jul 15, 2013 (AFP)
A tiny new moon has been spotted circling Neptune -- the 14th known to be orbiting the faraway planet, the US space agency said on Monday. The moon is the small...
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