Pluto’s champion recounts first mission to icy world – and gears up for the next one It took nine years for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to get to Pluto, and laying the groundwork for that history-making… Read More
New Horizons probe finishes transmitting data from Pluto flyby after 15 months More than 15 months after NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, the last bit of data captured during the… Read More
One year after Pluto flyby, New Horizons mission looks back and looks ahead One year ago today, NASA’s New Horizons probe whizzed past Pluto and opened up a new frontier for planetary science –… 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
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
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
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
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 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 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 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
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
