Using NASA New Horizons spacecraft data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists created this flyover movie. Zelensky sends message to Putin and Trump ...

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“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

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Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary ...

Pluto is too far away from Earth to be seen ... many people assumed it was a cold and relatively dead world. That was until NASA's 'New Horizons' probe arrived in 2015 and transformed our ...

A blue atmosphere, smooth areas, and youthful mountain ranges - this dwarf planet is full of surprises. When NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in July 2015, the images it returned astonished ...

Images and data have been flowing in since NASA's epic New Horizons Pluto flyby on Tuesday morning, and the latest image released shows an exaggerated color map of Pluto and its moon Charon.

New Horizons project manager. Ultima Thule, at 4 billion miles (about 6.4 billion km) from the Sun and 1 billion miles (about 1.6 billion km) from Pluto, will be the most distant object ever directly ...

For the sixth year in a row, Lowell Observatory is hosting the I Heart Pluto Festival, throwing a big party to celebrate its discovery and the 10th anniversary of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...

NASA's New Horizons probe flew by Pluto in 2015 and Arrokoth in 2019. There's no visit to Altjira in the works, but the researchers behind the new study hope that detailed remote observations of ...