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New Horizons

The icy object 2014 MU69 may be a binary, or even a contact binary, a double-lobed worldlet.

Now well beyond Pluto, New Horizons sees its next target

By Phil Plait |

3 years ago

Actual images of Pluto and its large moon Charon, shown to scale and with correct contrast, from New Horizon observations. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

We now have official high-resolution maps of Pluto and Charon

By Phil Plait |

3 years ago

Artwork showing New Horizons flying past MU69... or whatever it will be called by then. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Help name a rock in the outer solar system!

By Phil Plait |

4 years ago

Pluto and Charon, to scale in size and brightness. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Pluto's posse

By Phil Plait |

4 years ago

Artwork depicting the New Horizons spacecraft flyby of Pluto and Charon.

Is New Horizons’ next target a binary relic of the ancient solar system?

By Phil Plait |

4 years ago

artwork of New Horizons and MU69

The wink of a star reveals a distant target for New Horizons

By Phil Plait |

4 years ago

Pluto backlit by the Sun

Goodnight, Pluto

By Phil Plait |

5 years ago

Charon

It turns out methane CAN simply walk into Mordor

By Phil Plait |

5 years ago