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
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
NASA’s New Horizons probe sends its closest close-up of Pluto If you heart Pluto, you’ll love the sharpest, closest close-up of the dwarf planet, just sent back by NASA’s New Horizons… Read More
See how the world turns on Pluto and Charon, thanks to NASA’s New Horizons The bright heart of Pluto has been burned into our consciousness, thanks to scads of high-resolution pictures. But a new set… 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
New Horizons’ Pluto pictures reveal a weird blue glow – and water ice! The latest pictures from NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto reveal for the first time that the backlit dwarf planet… Read More
Pluto, we have a problem: Some geographical names may not fly on official maps Some of the best-known names on Pluto — ranging from the Sputnik plains to the Hillary and Norgay mountains and the… Read More
NASA’s latest on Pluto? Icy plains and an awesome animated flyover video We now know Pluto is home to an icy mountain range, but today’s briefing and new photos from NASA show… Read More
NASA’s New Horizons does epic flyby of Pluto, releases clearest picture yet NASA announced that its New Horizons flight to Pluto — a journey 3 billion miles and nearly a decade in the… Read More
Great photos of Pluto and Charon emerge in the final countdown to NASA’s flyby It’s four days until NASA’s New Horizons’ flyby of Pluto — and the photos the probe is sending back just… Read More
In countdown to New Horizons flyby, NASA releases incredible photos of Pluto The New Horizons probe that launched in 2006 is about to reach its destination: Pluto. In the countdown to the… Read More
