In September, the New Horizons team released a stunning but incomplete image of Pluto's crescent. Thanks to new processing work by the science team, New Horizons is releasing the entire, breathtaking image of Pluto.
Space Exploration
Oct 30, 2015
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Researchers from The University of Western Australia have uncovered answers to a mystery that has puzzled scientists for half a century.
Space Exploration
Oct 27, 2015
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has carried out the second in a series of four maneuvers propelling it toward an encounter with the ancient Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, a billion miles farther from the sun than Pluto.
Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2015
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has carried out the first in a series of four initial targeting maneuvers designed to send it toward 2014 MU69 – a small Kuiper Belt object about a billion miles beyond Pluto, which the spacecraft ...
Space Exploration
Oct 23, 2015
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Images of Pluto's tiny moon tiny Kerberos taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft – and just sent back to Earth this week – complete the family portrait of Pluto's moons.
Space Exploration
Oct 23, 2015
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The spacecraft that gave us the first close-up views of Pluto now has a much smaller object in its sights.
Space Exploration
Oct 22, 2015
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University of Maryland astronomers Silvia Protopapa and Douglas Hamilton are among the authors of the first published paper from the New Horizons flyby, which appears in the Oct. 16, 2015 issue of the journal Science. Protopapa ...
Space Exploration
Oct 15, 2015
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Black holes are created when stars die catastrophically in a supernova. So what in the universe is a white hole?
Astronomy
Oct 9, 2015
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Pluto has blue skies and patches of frozen water, according to the latest data out Thursday from NASA's unmanned New Horizons probe, which made a historic flyby of the dwarf planet in July.
Space Exploration
Oct 8, 2015
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NOAA and the other Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Trustees today released 15-year comprehensive, integrated environmental ecosystem restoration plans for the Gulf of Mexico in response to the April 20, 2010 Deepwater ...
Environment
Oct 6, 2015
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