Aug 24 How ‘killing’ Pluto redefined the solar system By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins Happy Pluto demotion day!… Continue reading
Jul 24 New Horizons mission spots a hazy silhouette and flowing glaciers on Pluto By Nsikan Akpan Flowing glaciers and a spooky silhouette comprise the latest highlights from the New Horizons mission to Pluto. Continue reading
Jul 24 Meet three scientists behind the Pluto mission By Megan Crigger Shortly after the July 14 flyby of Pluto and its moons, we spoke with three members of the New Horizons mission team: Alice Bowman, the mission operations manager, and Cathy Olkin and Kimberly Ennico-Smith, deputy project scientists. Editor’s note: Women… Continue reading
Jul 17 Nepal gets a piece of Pluto plus four new surprises from New Horizons By Nsikan Akpan Gas tails and Nepalese landmarks are just some of the latest updates from NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto. Continue reading
Jul 16 Poets answer Pluto fly by with #PlutoHaiku By Corinne Segal As NASA's spacecraft / reached Pluto this week, poets / on Twitter received / a challenge: to write / new Pluto-inspired verse / in #PlutoHaiku. Continue reading
Jul 15 Watch 6:15 Welcome to Pluto, where you’ll find mountains the size of the Rockies By PBS News Hour Today, NASA released the first ever close-up photographs of Pluto. The images showed icy mountains and a mysterious pale patch shaped like a heart. Judy Woodruff speaks to science correspondent Miles O’Brien about what we have learned about Pluto so… Continue watching
Jul 15 Earth, meet Pluto By Jenny Marder After nine years, 3 billion miles and then 31 long hours after yesterday's historic flyby, the first richly detailed image of Pluto has been released. And it's gorgeous. Continue reading
Jul 14 Watch 8:51 Pluto, underdog of the solar system, finally gets its day By PBS News Hour Soon, some of the mystery surrounding Pluto, the distant dwarf planet, will be lifted. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, speeding through space for almost a decade on a mission to capture a myriad of data, is believed to have finally made… Continue watching
Jul 14 Tomorrow’s image of Pluto will be 10 times sharper than this image below By Jenny Marder As the world awaits data from Pluto, NASA has released this most detailed image yet, which shows a stunning heart-shaped featured on the Pluto's surface. New Horizon's zipped by Pluto just before 8 am ET this morning. Continue reading
Jul 06 Mission to Pluto hits a speed bump, but resumes its stride By Kate Tobin Two days after briefly losing communication with the New Horizons spacecraft as it sped toward the dwarf planet Pluto, the probe’s operators say they understand the root cause of what happened and have taken steps to resume full operations. Continue reading