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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…

9 years ago

New Horizons Exits Safe Mode, Operating Flawlessly for Upcoming Pluto Encounter

Latest color image of Pluto taken on July 3, 2015 shows 4 mysterious dark spots. Best yet image of Pluto…

9 years ago

New Horizons, Approaching Pluto, Detects Signs of Polar Caps

The latest set of images from the long range imager, LORRI, on New Horizons now reveals surface features. At a…

9 years ago

The End is Near: NASA’s MESSENGER Now Running on Fumes

For more than four years NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has been orbiting our solar system's innermost planet Mercury, mapping its surface and…

9 years ago

2015: NASA’s Year of the Dwarf Planet

Together, the space probes Dawn and New Horizons have been in flight for a collective 17 years. One remained close…

9 years ago

MESSENGER Completes Second Burn to Maintain Mercury Orbit

A little over a week before NASA's MAVEN spacecraft fired its rockets to successfully enter orbit around Mars, MESSENGER performed a…

10 years ago

Mercury’s Ready For Its Close-Up, Mr. MESSENGER

Are you ready for a good close look at Mercury? At an incredible 5 meters per pixel, this is one of…

10 years ago

Twin NASA Probes Find “Zebra Stripes” in Earth’s Radiation Belt

Earth's inner radiation belt displays a curiously zebra-esque striped pattern, according to the latest findings from NASA's twin Van Allen…

10 years ago

Comets Encke and ISON Spotted from Mercury

Two comets currently on their way toward the Sun have been captured on camera from the innermost planet. The MESSENGER…

10 years ago

Fly Across Mercury with MESSENGER!

Take a ride on the Mercury express and see what MESSENGER sees in these two new videos! Each made from…

10 years ago