Almost a year after NASA’s New Horizons probe flew past Pluto, the team...
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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 was just a matter of time before the dwarf planet made its appearance on a valentine. Sure enough, this year’s crop of printable Valentine’s Day cards...
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 to fill up our tanks on the way to Alpha Centauri or Planet Nine. Water ice turns out to be more widespread on...
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,...
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 – thanks to a U.S. Postal Service cosmopalooza that also spotlights Earth’s moon and “Star Trek.” The Pluto stamp pays tribute to NASA’s...
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 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,...