(Read “Pluto’s Moons Dance to a Random Beat ... weird like that,” says Alex Parker, a postdoc on the New Horizons team. By the late 1980s, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft had swept ...

which is about half Pluto’s size. Previous research, including a flyby from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, revealed that the moon’s surface was coated by water ice. But scientists ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has captured incredible video footage of the ice mountains on Pluto’s moon Nix.

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An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto last July, and it took the most detailed images of the planet that have ever been seen. NASA just released some of the ...

In July, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time. The photos the craft sent back so far have astounded researchers. New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says ...

“A binary with a smaller moon might also help explain the shifts ... Among the many discoveries made by New Horizons on Pluto were strange formations resembling giant knife blades of ice.

Flyby New Horizons Pluto Solar System Spacecraft Get the best ... will leverage gravity as it prepares to get snagged by the Moon for orbit. A new study examines how much material from the closest ...

Nitrogen is heated and cooled as Pluto rotates. A New Horizons image of Pluto and its moon Charon revealed more surprises about the dwarf planet and its orbiting moon. Click on the hand to see why ...

It's 1 billion miles beyond Pluto, which New Horizons visited in July 2015 ... sunlight is about as weak as the light from a full moon on Earth. That far away, frozen leftovers of the solar ...