NASA extends New Horizons mission to Kuiper Belt, tells Dawn to stay at Ceres Almost a year after New Horizons’ unprecedented flyby of Pluto, NASA has given the official go-ahead for the probe to… Read More
Pluto may still have an ocean under its ice Pluto is one of the coldest places in the solar system, but scientists say geological activity could still keep an… Read More
New Horizons provides the best close-up of Pluto some of us might ever see Almost a year after NASA’s New Horizons probe flew past Pluto, the team behind the mission has put together a… Read More
What’s new from New Horizons: Clean water ice on Pluto’s far-out moon, Hydra If you’re looking for a place to chip off an ice cube for a cool interplanetary drink, you can’t do… Read More
Ancient Pluto could have had rivers and lakes of liquid nitrogen, scientists say Rivers and lakes of liquid nitrogen may have splashed over Pluto’s surface hundreds of millions of years ago, and could do… Read More
Clouds on Pluto? Pictures from NASA’s New Horizons probe spark discussion Even before NASA’s New Horizons probe flew past Pluto, scientists thought they might see clouds in its thin atmosphere – and… Read More
Why methane snow covers Pluto’s peaks The dark terrain informally known as Cthulhu Regio sweeps nearly halfway around Pluto’s equator, with light-colored peaks sticking up from… Read More
Pluto’s polar canyons get their close-up The heart-shaped region along Pluto’s equator has been the darling of NASA’s New Horizons mission, but it’s the north polar… Read More
New Horizons imagery backs up the claim that Charon, Pluto’s biggest moon, once had an ocean Scientists say the patterns of ice in canyons on Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, look as if some the frozen water was… Read More
Scientists dissect Pluto’s heart, for geology’s sake Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the scientists behind NASA’s New Horizons mission are sharing a map that brings a different perspective… Read More
Weird! New Horizons probe spots islands of water ice floating in nitrogen slush There’s plenty of evidence that Pluto is a frozen water world, with mountains of ice that rise more than 10,000… Read More
NASA puts Pluto and its heart on a valentine Say it with Pluto? After NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft spotted a heart-shaped region on Pluto, you had to know it… Read More
Map reveals that there’s more water ice on Pluto A color-coded map from NASA’s New Horizons mission shows where Pluto’s frozen water is concentrated, just in case we need… Read More
New Horizons team shares new X-Files from Pluto If “X-Files” are defined as data about weird and alien phenomena, NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto has X-Files galore. And this… Read More
Postal Service geeks out with space stamps for Pluto, planets, the moon and Star Trek For the first time since 1991, Pluto and the solar system’s eight bigger planets are getting their own postage stamps… Read More
New Horizons probe sends more amazing pics of Pluto and a tiny moon called Nix The hits just keep on coming from NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto: This week’s stunners include views of the… Read More
NASA’s New Horizons mission colorizes Pluto’s close-up – and zooms in on its pits The Pluto pictures from NASA’s New Horizons probe just keep getting better and better: Feast your eyes on this colorized… Read More
Ice volcanoes on Pluto? NASA’s New Horizons probe spots ‘weird’ mountains Scientists with NASA’s New Horizons mission say that at least a couple of the miles-high mountains on Pluto look as… Read More
Kerberos unleashed at last: Pluto’s dog-bone moon poses another mystery NASA’s New Horizons probe has finally filled out its family portrait of Pluto and its moons – and Kerberos, the last… Read More
Science journal gives New Horizons mission to Pluto its day in the sun The first peer-reviewed scientific paper about the New Horizons probe’s July flyby past Pluto lays out puzzling evidence that suggests the… Read More
NASA mission’s leader calls B.S. on Pluto haters: Will it make a difference? Can you say “bullshit” at NASA? The principal investigator for NASA’s New Horizons mission did, in an outburst directed at the tortuous… Read More
NASA’s Pluto update shows flowing ice, haze and a color-enhanced photo you’ve got to see Today, NASA’s New Horizons team delivered the latest round of updates from that historic Pluto flyby. The new pictures reveal… Read More
NASA’s latest photos of Pluto show ice mountains reaching 11,000 feet high NASA has released the next batch of images from New Horizons’ historic Pluto flyby — and this group is mesmerizing,… Read More
Stephen Colbert checks in with Neil deGrasse Tyson in this super-scientific Pluto Flyby update Let’s check back in on Pluto, shall we? In the midst of celebrating the news that Pluto successfully completed its… Read More
