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Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made history by flying past Pluto, sending back groundbreaking data that would change our ...
It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...
NASA’s New Horizons made history by revealing the unseen face of Pluto, for centuries this icy world remained a mystery ...
New Horizons is about to complete the first-ever close flyby of Pluto, and it could validate efforts dating back to the nineteenth century. By Graham Templeton July 13, 2015 ...
Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...
Pluto and Charon when New Horizons was 69 million miles (111 million kilometers) away. Image: NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI This image of Pluto and its moon Charon was taken on April 15, 2015—just 90 days ...
After its 3-billion mile journey across the solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto today at 7:49 a.m. ET. The space probe is traveling at an approximate speed of 30,800 ...
New Horizons launched in 2006, and conducted a flyby of Pluto in 2015, which gave humanity the clearest images of the dwarf planet to date. In 2019, in the far stretches of the solar system beyond ...
The next target for NASA’s New Horizons mission — which made a historic flight past Pluto in July 2015 — apparently bears a colorful resemblance to its famous, main destination.
The flyby added 9,000 miles per hour, pushing New Horizons past 50,000 miles per hour and setting up a flight by Pluto in July 2015. The number of observations at Jupiter was twice that of those ...
It was one of the most ambitious missions for NASA since the turn of the century, with photos reshaping what scientists know ...