New Horizons Views Pluto and Charon’s Daily Rotation
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has captured images of Pluto and Charon completing the rotation of a full day. Pluto’s day is 6.4 Earth days long….
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has captured images of Pluto and Charon completing the rotation of a full day. Pluto’s day is 6.4 Earth days long….
New information from NASA’s New Horizons Mission has revealed more than 50 exciting discoveries about Pluto. From possible ice volcanoes to twirling moons, scientists continue…
This newly released image from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft shows the complete image of Pluto’s crescent. In September, the New Horizons team released a stunning…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has captured images of Pluto’s tiny moon Kerberos, completing the family portrait of Pluto’s moons. Kerberos appears to be smaller than…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft provides a close-up view of Pluto’s moon Charon. The sweeping mosaic above is made from the highest-resolution images that NASA’s New…
The latest image from the New Horizons Spacecraft reveals an unusual clusters of small pits and troughs on Pluto. It seems that the more we…
The first research paper based on data from NASA’s New Horizons recent flyby of Pluto was published today, revealing a degree of diversity and complexity…
New images from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft reveal the shape and size of Pluto’s smallest moon, Styx. Styx – also the faintest of Pluto’s five…
New color images from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft reveal blue atmospheric hazes and water ice on Pluto. “Who would have expected a blue sky in…
New images from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft are the highest resolution images yet of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon. The images reveal a surprisingly complex and…
New Horizons gives astronomers a better view of the rich color variations of Pluto. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft continues to deliver data to astronomers, revealing new images and much more about the dwarf planet Pluto. The newest high-resolution images…
The latest images from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft show breathtaking views of Pluto’s majestic icy mountains, streams of frozen nitrogen and haunting low-lying hazes, and…
Newly downlinked images from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft reveal a bewildering variety of surface features on Pluto. “Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has begun downlinking the data is has collected on its mission to the Pluto system. The entire process will take about…
NASA scientists have selected the small Kuiper Belt object (KBO) known as 2014 MU69 as the next potential destination for the New Horizons mission. 2014…
New research hints that Pluto may still be geologically active, a theory that could explain how Pluto’s escaping atmosphere remains flush with nitrogen. The latest…
Scientists believe that the ice flows and water ice mountains revealed by New Horizons help support the idea that an interior ocean may be driving…