Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons Zooms By Pluto, Solar Systems Last Planet – King of The Kuiper Belt
APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, LAUREL, MD - With this morning’s (July 14) do or die flyby of Pluto by NASA’s New…
New Horizons Phones Home, Flyby a Success
Watch Pluto grow in this series of photos taken during New Horizons' approach Whew! We're out of the woods. On schedule…
Pluto – Just Look at the Detail!
We did it! At 7:49 a.m. EDT today New Horizons made history when it zoomed within 7,800 miles of Pluto, the most…
Charon: Pluto’s Largest Moon
Charon is the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto. In fact, it's so large the two objects act like…
Big Discovery from NASA’s New Horizons; Pluto is Biggest Kuiper Belt Body
Plutophiles everywhere rejoice. On the eve of history’s first ever up close flyby of mysterious Pluto on Tuesday morning July…
Pluto’s Moon Hydra
In 1930, Pluto was observed for the first time. For many decades, astronomers thought that the "ninth planet of the…
Naming Pluto: Christening Features on Brave New Worlds
‘Here be Dragons…’ read the inscriptions of old maps used by early seafaring explorers. Such maps were crude, and often…
Charon Up Close Reveals Colossal Chasms and Craters: 1 Day and 1 Million Miles Out from Pluto Flyby
Chasms, craters, and a dark north polar region are revealed in this image of Pluto’s largest moon Charon taken by…
Pluto’s Time to Shine Just Hours Away – A Guide and Timetable
Countdown to discovery! Not since Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune in 1989 have we flung a probe into the frozen…
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Last, Best Look at Pluto’s Far Side and Four Perplexing Spots: 2 Days Out from Flyby
New Horizons' last look at Pluto's Charon-facing hemisphere reveals the highest resolution view of four intriguing darks spots for decades…