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New Horizons approaches Pluto after 9 years
1-5-2015 |
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The long-running NASA spacecraft will soon become the first ever to visit this distant, icy world.
New Horizons films Charon orbiting Pluto
VIDEO 8-13-2014 | 11
The New Horizons spacecraft has managed to capture the orbit of Pluto's largest moon like never before.
Does Pluto's moon have a subsurface ocean ?
6-14-2014 | 3
New Horizons will be looking for signs of a subterranean sea when it reaches Pluto and Charon next year.
Does Pluto have a subterranean ocean ?
4-16-2014 | 16
A new theory suggests that Pluto, like Europa and Enceladus, may be home to a liquid water ocean.
Space probe plutonium reserves running out
9-23-2013 | 5
The fuel needed to send space probes on missions to other planets could run out within ten years.
Pluto spacecraft spots Charon for first time
7-12-2013 | 11
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has celebrated another milestone - its first photograph of Charon.
'Gate to Hell' discovered in Turkey
3-31-2013 | 24
Italian archaeologists have announced the discovery of Pluto's Gate amongst ruins in southwestern Turkey.
Scientists seek help naming Pluto's moons
2-12-2013 | 36
Astronomers have discovered two new moons around the distant dwarf planet within the last two years.
Pluto debris poses risk to New Horizons
10-24-2012 | 11
Dangerous debris orbiting around Pluto could prove a hazard to NASA's approaching New Horizons probe.
Fifth moon of Pluto discovered
7-14-2012 | 27
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a new moon orbiting Pluto.
Could there be life on Pluto ?
12-28-2011 | 20
Scientists have discovered the 'building blocks of life' on the surface of the cold, distant world Pluto.
Hew Horizons still on course for Pluto
9-6-2011 | 11
NASA's New Horizons probe is still hurtling towards Pluto at a speed of 1 million miles a day.
Pluto may be home to a liquid ocean
12-24-2010 | 12
Move over Europa - new computer models suggest Pluto may also hide a hidden ocean under its surface.
Should Pluto be a planet after all ?
11-21-2010 | 27
Pluto may have been demoted but it turns out it is the largest body in the outer solar system after all.
Hubble snaps Pluto changing colour
2-7-2010 | 7
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken pictures showing Pluto changing colour in a new series of detailed photographs.
Pluto spacecraft crosses halfway mark
12-30-2009 |
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is the fastest manmade object ever built, taking only a year to move beyond Jupiter follo...
New Horizons spacecraft is half way to Pluto
11-22-2009 | 11
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft launched in 2006 and has since been travelling towards Pluto, a historic 3-billion-mile, ...
Is Pluto a planet after all ?
7-30-2009 | 29
State governors in Illinois have declared that Pluto has been unfairly demoted to the category of 'dwarf planet', a sent...
The weirdest object in the solar system ?
6-25-2009 | 12
Astronomers have found what they believe to be the weirdest object in our solar system, a dwarf planet located in the Ku...
NASA running out of nuclear fuel
5-14-2009 | 2
NASA is running low on the nuclear fuel required for deep space missions and no longer has enough plutonium for future f...
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