The planets of the outer Solar System are known for being strange, as are their many moons. This is especially…
APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, LAUREL, MD - The highest resolution images ever taken of Pluto by humanity’s first spacecraft ever to…
This annotated view of a portion of Pluto’s Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain), named for Earth’s first artificial satellite, shows an…
Humans have been sending spacecraft to other planets, as well as asteroid and comets, for decades. But rarely have any…
New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise -- a range of youthful mountains rising…
APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, LAUREL, MD - With this morning’s (July 14) do or die flyby of Pluto by NASA’s New…
Watch Pluto grow in this series of photos taken during New Horizons' approach Whew! We're out of the woods. On schedule…
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…
Plutophiles everywhere rejoice. On the eve of history’s first ever up close flyby of mysterious Pluto on Tuesday morning July…
How long would it take for the gravitational well created by the Sun to disappear, and the Earth and the…