HiRes Images of Pluto and Charon Released
Icy mountains on Pluto and a new, crisp view of its largest moon, Charon, are among the several discoveries announced Wednesday by the NASA’s New Horizons…
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New Horizons Passes Pluto After Historic 3 Billion Mile Journey
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750…
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NASA Pluto New Horizons July 13 Media Briefing Time Change
NASA will provide comprehensive television, Internet and social media coverage this week of the agency’s New Horizons spacecraft historic July 14 flyby of Pluto. The time…
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New Image of Pluto Reveals Planetary Geology
It began as a point of light. Then, it evolved into a fuzzy orb. Now – in its latest portrait from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft –…
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NASA Missions Have Their Eyes Peeled on Pluto
What’s icy, has “wobbly” potato-shaped moons, and is the world’s best-known dwarf planet? The answer is Pluto, and NASA’s New Horizons is speeding towards the edge…
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Television Coverage and Media Activities for Pluto Flyby Announced by NASA
NASA is inviting media to cover New Horizons’ historic Pluto flyby in mid-July, including the spacecraft’s closest approach to Pluto on July 14, from the Johns…
Read the articleNew Horizons Comes Out of Hibernation for Pluto 2015 Encounter
After a voyage of nearly nine years and three billion miles —the farthest any space mission has ever traveled to reach its primary target – NASA’s…
Read the articleNew Horizons Spacecraft Reaches Neptune Orbit Crossing Milestone
NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has traversed the orbit of Neptune. This is its last major crossing en route to becoming the first probe to make…
Read the articleThe Trans-Neptunian Worlds Discovered by the Herschel Space Telescope
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has observed 132 of the known 1400 cold worlds that inhabit a region of the Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune,…
Read the articleCounting Down to a Flyby of Pluto
When NASA’s New Horizons mission was launched, Pluto was still considered one of the nine planets in our solar system. It has since been reclassified as…
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