New Horizons
New Horizons delivers first images of icy world since Pluto flyby
The New Horizons space probe is bringing new images of a remnant of the early solar system, after its historic brush with Pluto last summer, reports ABC News.
First photos of Pluto’s north pole released
NASA just released incredible new photos of Pluto’s north pole, and they seem to raise more questions about this icy planet.
Pluto’s moon may have had an ocean
Images from NASA’s New Horizons mission suggest that Pluto’s moon Charon once had a subsurface ocean that has long since frozen and expanded, pushing outward and causing the moon’s surface to stretch and fracture on a massive scale, according to NASA.
Space slug mystery solved!
The explanation for the unusual look involves some interesting behavior from the nitrogen-heavy ice.
New photos show Pluto's icebergs appear to float in sea of nitrogen ice
The new images of Pluto sent back to planet Earth from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, show the dwarf planet’s plains and ‘icebergs’ floating in a sea of nitrogen ice, reports Mashable.com.
Latest images reveal Pluto's hazy horizon
Fresh images from Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft have captured a low-lying haze clinging to the surface of Pluto. The pictures also offer stunning views of the dwarf planet's rugged mountains and its sweeping plains.
New Horizons resumes image return
New pictures have been released from the New Horizons probe’s flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto.
New Horizons post-Pluto target just billion miles away
If a mission extension is approved, the New Horizons spacecraft will take a short jaunt to a mysterious icy object in the Kuiper Belt, reports CNET.
Hubble Spies Dying Star's Final 'Moments'
In the quarter-century that it's been eyeing the cosmos, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken some pretty spectacular photos of "a dying star's final moment.
Reason behind the mysterious heart on Pluto
This is the sharpest image yet of the dwarf planet as a whole that we've seen, and it reveals something that scientists hadn't been able to observe before: that the left lobe of Tombough Regio looks very different from the right lobe.
Queen guitarist helps Pluto team examine data (video)
Queen guitarist Brian May helps NASA team examine data on Pluto sent by New Horizons spacecraft.
Scientists puzzle over Pluto's polygons
New pictures relayed by the first spacecraft to visit distant Pluto show odd polygon-shaped features and smooth hills in an crater-free plain, indications that the icy world is geologically active.
Spotlight shining on Pluto in cold outskirts of solar system
The spotlight is bright enough to thaw even Pluto.
Pluto memes take over the Internet
The internet is one place where the breathtaking ground breaking new images of the dwarf planet Pluto can be plastered with Donald Trump’s facer or even converted to Kim Kardashians behind.
Nasa spacecraft speeds past Pluto
Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft has made the first visit to Pluto, speeding past at 14km per second.
New Horizons in 'great shape' for Pluto flyby
Engineers say the New Horizons spacecraft is in "great shape" for its historic flyby of Pluto this week.
Something 'scary' went wrong with Nasa's probe to Pluto
A spacecraft of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), New Horizons, cut off communications with Earth as it was headed toward Pluto on July 4.
New Horizons spacecraft nears historic encounter
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is three months from returning to humanity the first-ever close up images and scientific observations of distant Pluto and its system of large and small moons.
Coloured Pluto comes into view
The New Horizons probe, which is bearing down on Pluto, captures its first colour image of the distant dwarf planet.