NASA launched a spacecraft to Pluto! New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano, and it became the first ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been speeding through space since early 2006 and it’s about to make what might be its most interesting flyby to date. After speeding past Jupiter and Pluto ...

The pictures, taken by the New Horizons probe on 1 January, show the apparently bulbous body to be quite flat. This interpretation is evident from the data acquired by the Nasa spacecraft when it ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. NASA has given a new lease of life to its New Horizons mission, which in 2015 got the first-ever close-ups images of dwarf ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...

LOS ANGELES: Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission on Wednesday released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored - the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (left) and NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft (right) image the planet Uranus. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

NASA's Hubble, New Horizons Team Up for a Simultaneous Look at Uranus Oct. 11, 2024 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently ...

Planitia structure on its surface. Ever since NASA's New Horizons sent back the first-ever photos of Pluto in 2015, the dwarf planet's mysterious heart-shaped region has puzzled scientists.

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