Happy New Year! As well as simply the start of a new year, today also marks another significant date – exactly one year from now, …
Read MorePluto and beyond: New Horizons’ next Kuiper Belt rendezvous only one year away
It has been nearly two-and-a-half years now since New Horizons sped past Pluto and its moons in July 2015, and now the spacecraft is starting …
Read MoreAs New Horizons speeds toward next target, new data suggests 2014 MU69 may have a moon
Pluto is an intriguing little world, full of geological surprises, as New Horizons revealed back in 2015. This cold, remote body was expected to be …
Read More‘Penitentes on steroids’: Scientists solve enigma of Pluto’s massive ice blades
In 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft provided our first up-close look at Pluto and its moons, helping to transform our knowledge about these small, cold …
Read More‘Hopping around’ on Pluto? Exciting lander mission concept presented at NASA symposium
It was two years ago today that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft became the first-ever probe to visit Pluto in the cold, outer fringes of the Solar System. To help celebrate the occasion, NASA has posted a new video of the epic flyby, when the spacecraft soared over the tall mountains and vast icy plains of this small but active world.
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