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Pluto photos from NASA's New Horizons still captivating scientists decade later
It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...
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New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We’re still learning from it
Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.
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Pluto may not be a planet, yet it contains something extraordinary: NASA finds water “and then some”
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), operated by NASA, has uncovered intriguing new details about Charon—Pluto’s largest ...
Cryovolcanism and resurfacing on Pluto's largest moon, Charon
What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...
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Pluto May Have Captured Its Biggest Moon Charon ... - The New York Times
Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Some 4.5 billion years ...
Pluto photos from NASA's New Horizons still captivating scientists decade after historic flyby
It was one of the most ambitious missions for NASA since the turn of the century, with photos reshaping what scientists know ...