
VIDEO: NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting
Could the next flyby target for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft actually be two targets? […]
Could the next flyby target for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft actually be two targets? […]
In June 2015, when the cameras on NASA’s approaching New Horizons spacecraft first spotted the large reddish polar region on Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, mission scientists knew two things: they’d never seen anything like it elsewhere in our solar system, and they couldn’t wait to get the story behind it. […]
One year later, what are the the top ten discoveries of the planet Pluto discovered by NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft. […]
One year ago today, the New Horizons space probe passed 7,800 miles (12,500 km) above the surface of Pluto, becoming the first spacecraft to explore the dwarf planet and its moons. […]
One of the strangest landforms spotted by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft when it flew past Pluto last July was the “bladed” terrain just east of Tombaugh Regio, the informal name given to Pluto’s large heart-shaped surface feature. […]
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft spied several features on Pluto that offer evidence of a time millions or billions of years ago when – thanks to much higher pressure in Pluto’s atmosphere and warmer conditions on the surface – liquids might have flowed across and pooled on the surface of the distant world. […]
NASA’s New Horizons mission has answered one of the most basic questions about Pluto—its size. […]
Images from NASA’s New Horizons mission suggest that Pluto’s moon Charon once had a subsurface ocean that has long since frozen and expanded, pushing outward and causing the moon’s surface to stretch and fracture on a massive scale. […]
Ten years ago NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft rocketed into the sky above the Florida coastline, beginning its long journey into the history books. […]
Scientists with NASA’s New Horizons mission have assembled this highest-resolution color view of one of two potential cryovolcanoes spotted on the surface of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015. […]
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best color and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon – and these pictures show a surprisingly complex and violent history. […]
The newest high-resolution images of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons are both dazzling and mystifying, revealing a multitude of previously unseen topographic and compositional details. […]