Using what they have so far scientists are learning more about Pluto and its moons every day. Using the images from New Horizons scientists can see details of Pluto's thin atmosphere and its ...
New Horizons rocketed past the Pluto system in 2015, which is now technically considered part of the Kuiper Belt. The mission collected data on the dwarf planet and its unique moon, Charon.
(Read “Pluto’s Moons Dance to a Random Beat ... weird like that,” says Alex Parker, a postdoc on the New Horizons team. By the late 1980s, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft had swept ...
Nitrogen is heated and cooled as Pluto rotates. A New Horizons image of Pluto and its moon Charon revealed more surprises about the dwarf planet and its orbiting moon. Click on the hand to see why ...
An curved arrow pointing right. It took NASA's New Horizons spacecraft over nine years to reach the distant world of Pluto, but it was well worth the wait. This video reveals six weeks of images ...
Pluto's 'Heart' Was Likely Broken by an Asteroid Long Ago ...
Now, about 8 years later, New Horizons is completing what's arguably the most popular leg of its trip - zooming past Pluto and its moons, of which there are at least five. A first look at the icy ...
An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto last July, and it took the most detailed images of the planet that have ever been seen. NASA just released some of the ...
ForbesIn Photos: See The 'Super Harvest Moon' Set-Up America's 'Ring ... The flyby of New Horizons nine years later revealed Pluto to be geologically active and complex, with nitrogen-ice plains ...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time in July 2015. Scientists are astonished by the incredible features they've observed on the dwarf planet, including a 1,000 mile ...