Jul 6, 2015 by News Staff

Planetary researchers involved in NASA’s New Horizons mission combined the latest black and white map of Pluto’s surface features with a map of the...

Jul 3, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has taken an amazing photo of Pluto and its five moons: Charon, Nix, Hydra, Styx and Kerberos. This family portrait,...

Jul 2, 2015 by News Staff

Scientists with NASA’s New Horizons mission have combined black-and-white images of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, from New Horizons’ LORRI imager...

Jul 1, 2015 by News Staff

Using data from Ralph, a visible and infrared imager/spectrometer aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, scientists have detected frozen methane on the...

Jun 23, 2015 by News Staff

Using new images from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, planetary scientists have discovered that Charon...

Jun 22, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons has beamed back color pictures of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon. An artist’s concept of Pluto. Image credit: NASA / Johns...

Jun 12, 2015 by News Staff

NASA has just released a set of images of the dwarf planet Pluto taken by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager during May 29 – June 2,...

May 28, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has beamed back its best-yet images of the dwarf planet Pluto and Charon, Pluto’s largest moon. This image, taken May...

May 13, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured images of four small moons of Pluto – Hydra, Nix, Kerberos and Styx. Hydra (red), Nix (yellow), Kerberos...

Apr 30, 2015 by News Staff

The Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured some spectacular new images of Pluto, revealing bright and...

Apr 15, 2015 by News Staff

The Ralph color imager on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured a low-resolution color image of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon. This image...

Feb 19, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has provided its first views of Nix and Hydra – the small moons of Pluto. Nix (identified by a orange diamond) and...

Feb 5, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has acquired new images of the Pluto system. The images, taken with spacecraft’s Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI)...

Jan 16, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons is entering the first of several approach phases that culminate July 14 with the first close-up flyby of Pluto. This is an artist’s...

Dec 8, 2014 by News Staff

After a voyage of nine years and five billion kilometers, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is literally on Pluto’s doorstep, on schedule, in good health,...

Aug 25, 2014 by News Staff

On August 25, 1989, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft passed within about 40,000 km of Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune. In commemoration...

Jun 14, 2014 by News Staff

Charon – the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto – may once have had a warm subterranean ocean, suggests a team of planetary scientists led...