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Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.
It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...
NASA’s New Horizons made history by revealing the unseen face of Pluto, for centuries this icy world remained a mystery ...
The New Horizons station is the first man-made object to reach Pluto. Till now, an incredibly distant and barely seen by ...
Last month, Stern and other New Horizons scientists signed onto a white paper calling for NASA to fund an in-depth study of potential Pluto orbiter missions. That grass-roots approach mirrors how ...
When New Horizons zipped past Pluto on July 14, 2015, the NASA spacecraft was only able to observe one side of the dwarf planet. Scientists have now reviewed data collected by New Horizons during ...
Of the 50 gigabits New Horizons collected during its nine-day flyby of Pluto, less than 2 percent has made it back to Earth. “I’m a little biased, but I think the solar system saved the best ...
In Pluto’s shadow. New Horizons watched the sun set and rise behind Pluto in a momentary eclipse around 8:51 a.m., using sunlight and radio signals from Earth to examine Pluto’s atmosphere.
The spacecraft New Horizons sped past Pluto and its moons on July 14, 2015, gathering data from seven onboard instruments. Shortly thereafter, it began offloading that data in a stream of digital bits ...
Pluto is the largest object known to exist in the Kuiper Belt, but MU69 is much smaller and more representative of the trillions of other KBOs, Kelsi Singer of the New Horizons science team told ...
For 9-1/2 years, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sped through space at more than 30,000 mph on a one-way trip to Pluto. But when it finally gets to its distant destination, it has no plans to ...
It was one of the most ambitious missions for NASA since the turn of the century, with photos reshaping what scientists know ...