Scientists get their last look at Pluto's mysterious dark spots
The closer the New Horizons spacecraft gets to Pluto, the more puzzling the dwarf planet becomes.
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New Horizons sets up for New Year's flyby of Ultima Thule
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft carried out a short engine burn on Oct. 3 to home in on the location and timing of its New Year's flyby of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule.
Space Exploration
Oct 5, 2018
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Pluto's big moon Charon reveals a colorful and violent history
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.
Space Exploration
Oct 1, 2015
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Unusual interactions between Pluto's moons
Much ink has been spilled over Pluto's reclassification as a dwarf planet. And yet, such discussions have not diminished scientific interest in Earth's most distant cousin. A new study is the first to reveal fascinating details ...
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Jun 3, 2015
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Pluto's 'heart' revealed as New Horizons probe starts flyby campaign
Emotions are rising exponentially with the rousing revelation that Pluto has a huge 'Heart' as revealed in stunning new imagery received just today (July 8) from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft – which has also officially ...
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Jul 9, 2015
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Cracks in Pluto's moon could indicate it once had an underground ocean
If the icy surface of Pluto's giant moon Charon is cracked, analysis of the fractures could reveal if its interior was warm, perhaps warm enough to have maintained a subterranean ocean of liquid water, according to a new ...
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Jun 13, 2014
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The birth of a 'snowman' at the edge of the solar system
A model developed at the Faculty of Physics at the Technion, in collaboration with German scientists at Tübingen, explains the unique properties of Arrokoth, the most distant object ever imaged in the solar system. The research ...
Space Exploration
Apr 23, 2020
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New Horizons completes record-setting Kuiper Belt targeting maneuvers
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has successfully performed the last in a series of four targeting maneuvers that set it on course for a January 2019 encounter with 2014 MU69. This ancient body in the Kuiper Belt is more than ...
Space Exploration
Nov 6, 2015
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Dwarf planet mysteries beckon to New Horizons
(PhysOrg.com) -- At this very moment one of the fastest spacecraft ever launched -- NASA's New Horizons -- is hurtling through the void at nearly one million miles per day. Launched in 2006, it has been in flight longer ...
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Sep 5, 2011
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New Horizons conducts the first interstellar parallax experiment
For the first time, a spacecraft has sent back pictures of the sky from so far away that some stars appear to be in different positions than we'd see from Earth.
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Jun 12, 2020
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