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NASA wants to name parts of Pluto’s moon after Star Wars
Pluto's moon Charon might become a nerd's paradise if NASA has anything to say about it.It's already settled that Pluto's landscape features must have names that come from underworld mythology like...
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Pluto has blue skies and frozen water on its surface
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which visited Pluto in July, has just returned the first color images of the world's atmospheric haze, and it has a brilliant blue tint."Who would have expected a blue...
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There's a piece of gaming history at the heart of NASA's Pluto spacecraft
In 2006, NASA launched a spacecraft named New Horizons with an eye toward the dwarf planet Pluto.Nine years later, it's taking gorgeous photos of Pluto, its moons, and other, mostly cold stuff in the...
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The original iPhone is much more powerful than the New Horizons probe that...
The New Horizons probe that flew to Pluto might be able to make calls to the edge of the solar system, but it wouldn't be a very good for browsing social media or running any of your apps. The original...
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See Pluto as a glowing crescent in this stunning high-res photo
NASA just released a full crescent photo of the dwarf planet Pluto taken from 11,000 miles away, and it's stunning:The image was taken in July, right after the New Horizons spacecraft hurtled past...
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Scientists are very suspicious about these 'mountains' on Pluto
Pluto has yet to run out of mind-blowing mysteries.The latest data from the New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past Pluto in July, suggest the dwarf planet hosts ice volcanoes more than 100 miles...
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This psychedelic picture of Pluto reveals how geologically diverse it is
Pluto may be tiny, but it is a huge geologic mystery. The dwarf planet has completely stumped scientists with its ice mountains, slush-spewing volcanoes, sporadic patches of craters, and unusually...
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NASA just released incredible new images of Pluto — the best we'll see in...
NASA just released the first batch of the closest images of Pluto that we'll see from the New Horizons flyby in July.These images were taken from only 10,000 miles away from Pluto and have a resolution...
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Stunning close-up images show Pluto like we've never seen it before
NASA just released the best look at Pluto that we'll see from the New Horizons flyby in July.The spacecraft captured these images just 10,000 miles away from Pluto, with a resolution of about 250 feet...
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Scientists have spotted mountains on Pluto that look like giant ice volcanoes
NASA scientists have pieced together the most detailed image yet of one of two giant mountains on Pluto that they suspect might be ice volcanoes.This feature, nicknamed Wright Mons, is about 90 miles...
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Pluto just got even weirder with this unprecedented photo of its north pole
Wow.That's what we have to say about this incredible new photo of Pluto's north pole that NASA just released:The New Horizons spacecraft took this high-resolution shot as it approached the icy world on...
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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,...
View ArticleThis strange phenomenon could reclassify former planet Pluto yet again
Former planet Pluto may have been miscategorized yet again. A recent analysis of its atmosphere showed that it may be something we've never seen before — a comet-planet hybrid.Produced by Matt Stuart....
View ArticleWatching this video makes it feel like you're exploring Pluto
Have you ever wanted to zoom billions of miles away from Earth and explore our controversial celestial-body-formerly-known-as-a-planet Pluto?Thanks to a new 360° interactive video by The New York...
View ArticleNASA just released the most detailed close-up shots of Pluto’s surface yet,...
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 images, and they are absolutely...
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You can now buy these awesome postage stamps of Pluto and the planets
Back in 1991, the US Postal Service issued stamps of the solar system's then-nine planets.Although Pluto has since been demoted to dwarf planet, it had the only one that read "not yet explored."So when...
View ArticleNASA released the sharpest photos of Pluto in history — and they're spectacular
Last July, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto. The event was one for the history books. Because Pluto is so far, it took time for the spacecraft to transmit all of its stunning views of the...
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Something is moving beneath Pluto's icy skin — and it might be liquid water
Pluto, our lonesome ex-planetary cousin in the Kuiper Belt, might have a secret buried kilometers below its surface: an ocean of liquid water.When New Horizons flung itself past Pluto in 2015, it...
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Pluto might be hiding a vast liquid ocean beneath its icy surface
Last summer, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft found something surprising on Pluto, the cosmic underdog nearly 4 billion miles from the sun.It turns out that the distant space rock, which was demoted to...
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NASA is sending a probe to explore a strange object a billion miles beyond Pluto
Even as the Juno mission made history by successfully coming into orbit around Jupiter, NASA had its eyes on other ways to push the boundaries of our knowledge about the universe around us.The agency...
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