New Horizons
NASA’s New Horizons Makes Major Discoveries: Young Ice Mountains on Pluto and Crispy Young Chasms on Charon
New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise -- a range of youthful mountains rising…
NASA’s New Horizons Zooms By Pluto, Solar Systems Last Planet – King of The Kuiper Belt
APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, LAUREL, MD - With this morning’s (July 14) do or die flyby of Pluto by NASA’s New…
New Horizons Phones Home, Flyby a Success
Watch Pluto grow in this series of photos taken during New Horizons' approach Whew! We're out of the woods. On schedule…
Pluto – Just Look at the Detail!
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…
Big Discovery from NASA’s New Horizons; Pluto is Biggest Kuiper Belt Body
Plutophiles everywhere rejoice. On the eve of history’s first ever up close flyby of mysterious Pluto on Tuesday morning July…
How Fast is Gravity?
How long would it take for the gravitational well created by the Sun to disappear, and the Earth and the…
Charon Up Close Reveals Colossal Chasms and Craters: 1 Day and 1 Million Miles Out from Pluto Flyby
Chasms, craters, and a dark north polar region are revealed in this image of Pluto’s largest moon Charon taken by…
Pluto’s Time to Shine Just Hours Away – A Guide and Timetable
Countdown to discovery! Not since Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune in 1989 have we flung a probe into the frozen…
Scientists Captivated By Pluto’s Emerging Geological Wonders
Bit by the Pluto bug? Day by day, new images appear showing an ever clearer view of a world we inexplicably love. Call…
Pluto’s ‘Heart’ Revealed as New Horizons Probe Starts Flyby Campaign: 5 Days Out
The Huge Heart of Pluto Pluto’s “Heart” is seen in this new image from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager…