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“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...
Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies ...
On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft, one of the most advanced ever built, is scheduled to fly by Pluto to take the very first detailed images of the dwarf planet. After nine years and ...
the New Horizons probe's close encounter with Pluto lasted just six days as it hurtled past at nearly 50,000 kilometres an hour. I was lucky enough to witness, first-hand, the first images ...
An amateur astronomer discovered Pluto 95 years ago today. The former planet will complete an orbit in another 153 years.
The image was taken in July, right after the New Horizons spacecraft hurtled past Pluto at 30,000 mph. The spacecraft swiveled around to take this stunning photo of the tiny planet back-lit by the ...
Using this updated instrument, scientists produced even more detailed maps of Pluto. While still low resolution, the map represented a composite of hundreds of images. For the first time ...
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