When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sped by Pluto in 2015, it revealed an incredible world of ice and haze carved by various geological processes — hinting that an ocean may have played a role in the ...

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What NASA found on Pluto has raised serious questions. During a historic mission, NASA made a surprising discovery on the surface of Pluto. Scientists were not expecting this, and the discovery ...

Subaru Telescope has been collaborating with the NASA’s first Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission called “New Horizons.” This article introduces the mission features and research contents. Solar system ...

When the International Astronomical Union announced in 2006 that Pluto was being demoted from its status as the Sun’s ninth planet, many astronomers and non-experts alike were shocked. Pluto remains ...

For decades, Pluto remained one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, until July 14, 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to visit it up close, capturing ...

Now scientists await a bounty of new data about the small, mysterious icy body, the most distant object ever visited. By Kenneth Chang The probe that visited Pluto will study a mysterious icy world ...

Clyde Tombaugh, who was born on this day in 1906, grew up on a farm in Kansas and was captivated by sights of the moon and ...

~ The probe will take years to reach its target. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- It will be the fastest spacecraft ever launched, zooming past the moon in nine hours and reaching Jupiter in just over a year ...