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Surface Of Pluto Is Colorful And Snakelike
With its data being relayed back to Earth, the New Horizons space probe has revealed one groundbreaking discovery after another. Its latest batch of...
New Horizons Reveals Pluto’s Earth-like Surface
When NASA’s New Horizons flew by Pluto in July, it looked back toward the sun and captured a near-sunset view of the planet’s varied...
New Horizons Releases Photos Of Pluto And Charon
NASA has just released the most astounding images of Pluto and its moon, Charon, after having received data collected by New Horizons on its flyby missions....
New Horizons: The Next Great Journey Beyond Pluto
In mid July, NASA’s New Horizons probe made its flyby of Pluto following its years-long approach, and collected a lot of amazing data--some of...
Pluto’s Atmosphere Puzzles NASA Scientists
NASA scientists are just now starting to play with the data collected by the New Horizons spacecraft on its flyby of Pluto in July....
Geeks Are Outraged: Why Didn’t We Orbit Pluto?
It’s been over a month since New Horizons completed its flyby of Pluto, and many astronomers and space cadets are feeling ennui at the prospect of...
Scientists Think They’ve Cracked How Pluto Refills Its Seemingly Endless Supply of Nitrogen
The most recent images returned by New Horizons shows that Pluto’s surface is mostly composed of nitrogen, just like Earth’s. There is; however, about a 20 percent difference in composition.
New Horizons Finds Flowing Ice On Pluto?
One month has passed since New Horizons finally made its flyby of Pluto, limning the surface in spectacular definition with its Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager...
Geeks and Nerds Rejoice! Features of Pluto’s Moon Charon to be Named After Sci-Fi...
Features on Pluto’s moon Charon are about to be named after popular science fiction heroes, signaling the end of a long era of geeks and nerds being ridiculed and marginalized by society.
Data From New Horizons Brings Pluto’s Planet Classification Back Into Question
The scientific community loves a good debate, and perhaps one of the most on-again, off-again debates is about Pluto -- is it a planet?...
New Horizons Snaps Photos of a New Mountain Range on Pluto
The newly discovered mountain range is located on Pluto’s Tombaugh Regio (also known as the “heart” of Pluto), which is located in the southwest portion of the dwarf planet.
Party on Pluto! 5 Cool Things to Do at Such a Planet
Since Pluto is extremely relevant right now, here are 5 cool things to do on Pluto (if Pluto were livable).
How Mankind Finally Saw Pluto
In 2000, NASA finally announced that there was an opportunity to undergo a mission to Pluto. This was met with great excitement by everyone -- especially those who met about it originally in the 90’s.
New Horizons Finds That Pluto Has a Tail
Recent new horizons images uncover never before seen features
Recent news about Pluto discoveries lit up the space science world as the New Horizons spacecraft approached Pluto....
Closeup Images of Pluto
When New Horizons executed its flyby of Pluto on July 14th, 2015 at a distance of 47,800 miles (77,000 km), it snapped a series...
New Horizons’ New Images of Pluto Echo Mars’ Camera Debut
With all of the excitement in anticipation of the imminent arrival of Hi-Res photos of Pluto and its Moon Charon from New Horizons’ flyby...
New Horizons After Pluto
After traveling the 3 billion miles, after surviving the radioactive environment of space for 9 years, after carrying the ashes of the astronomer who...
Pluto and Charon Shows Their Unique Orbit
In reality, Pluto and Charon have what is known as a binary system, and this is the only orbit of its kind in our solar system.
New Horizons Finally Reaches Kuiper Belt: Pictures of Pluto on their Way
On this day, July 14th, 2015, every planet in the solar system has been explored at least once by a space probe.
Pluto is Bigger Than Previously Thought
On the now dwarf planet that was stripped of its planet-hood in 2006, they are saying its size is larger than what was once thought.
