

Science May 10

NASA New Horizons mission leader Alan Stern and astrobiologist David Grinspoon divulge the most intimate accounts of the decades of planning needed for the Pluto probe in the new book “Chasing New Horizons.”…
By Rashmi Shivni
Science Nov 17

Astronomers have just found the best evidence yet of an entire ocean in an exceedingly unlikely place—the dwarf planet Pluto.
By Lee Billings, Scientific American
Science Sep 14

Charon’s north pole has a dark red color, starkly different from its otherwise grey-white surface, and scientists have finally found out why.
By Leigh Anne Tiffany
Science Mar 18

NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto continues to astonish in new set of five studies on the dwarf planet.
By Nsikan Akpan
Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology announced on Wednesday they’d found evidence for a massive, faraway planet. If true, it would constitute the ninth planet in our solar system, an honor once bestowed on Pluto. They’ve nicknamed the new…
Dec 24

By Justin Scuiletti
On Thursday morning, NASA released a new image of Pluto decked out for the holidays in a festive green and red coloring as its "Image of the Day."…
NASA released two black and white images of Pluto on Friday, billing them as the dwarf planet's "best close-ups that humans may see for decades."…
Oct 22

By Joshua Barajas
Flight controllers initiated the first of four maneuvers Thursday needed to change New Horizons’ trajectory toward an object elsewhere in the Kuiper Belt.
Sep 17

By Joshua Barajas
NASA released images Thursday that show more details of the dwarf planet's icy landscape.
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