Image of the week: Pluto and Charon's fascinating embrace
New simulations propose a 'Kiss and Capture' scenario to explain the evolution of the dwarf planet and its main moon.
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New Horizons Pluto close-ups
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 ...
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With New Horizons, Pluto Gets Some Respect, for a Change
Meet New Horizons, arriving at Pluto on July 14 ... manage the elementary decencies of civilization — taking close-up pictures and chemical readings of a mysterious world nine and a half ...
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Spacecraft Will Reach Pluto in July, Revealing Last Face in Solar System
The weeks leading up to the Pluto encounter will be punctuated with tense analyses of the newest images from New Horizons. As Tombaugh did eight decades earlier, the team will be searching for ...
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NASA just released a video of what it would be like to land on Pluto
An curved arrow pointing right. It took NASA's New Horizons spacecraft over nine years to reach the distant world of Pluto, but it was well worth the wait. This video reveals six weeks of ...
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Pluto: What are NASA’s five big discoveries so far?
Before New Horizons, the best images of Pluto revealed nothing more than a few light and dark patches. The best Hubble Telescope images were only 150 pixels across. The new pictures show ...
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Pluto Mission Will Now Study The Distant Solar Wind, Says NASA
NASA has given a new lease of life to its New Horizons mission, which in 2015 got the first-ever close-ups images of dwarf planet Pluto. Thought to be a target for cost savings, according to ...