Almost a year after NASA’s New Horizons probe flew past Pluto, the team...
New Horizons provides the best close-up of Pluto some of us might ever see
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What’s new from New Horizons: Clean water ice on Pluto’s far-out moon, Hydra
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 week, the mission’s science team shared an X-File with an actual X on it. The timing of Thursday’s image release couldn’t be much better,...
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 surface that look weirder than the terrain in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” plus a close look at Nix, one of Pluto’s five moons. During...
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 view of the border...
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 probe. The images, captured from a distance of 10,000 miles during the July 14 flyby, include a heart-shaped block of nitrogen-rich ice right on the edge of the big heart-shaped region known informally as Tombaugh Regio. You can...
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 of images from NASA’s New Horizons mission provides an all-around view of the dwarf planet, including the splotchy shapes that went out of view days before the time of closest approach on July 14. Another 10-picture set shows Pluto’s biggest moon,...