New Horizons

A color-enhanced mosaic of Pluto made from New Horizons images when it passed the icy world in 2015. Maybe I should make this a bumper sticker. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI
Pluto's mountains are capped with... methane snow?
Phil Plait
Oct 14, 2020
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Now well beyond Pluto, New Horizons sees its next target
Phil Plait
Aug 29, 2018
The icy object 2014 MU69 may be a binary, or even a contact binary, a double-lobed worldlet.
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We now have official high-resolution maps of Pluto and Charon
Phil Plait
Jul 13, 2018
Actual images of Pluto and its large moon Charon, shown to scale and with correct contrast, from New Horizon observations. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
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Help name a rock in the outer solar system!
Phil Plait
Nov 9, 2017
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
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Pluto's posse
Phil Plait
Sep 19, 2017
Pluto and Charon, to scale in size and brightness. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
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Is New Horizons’ next target a binary relic of the ancient solar system?
Phil Plait
Aug 9, 2017
Artwork depicting the New Horizons spacecraft flyby of Pluto and Charon.
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The wink of a star reveals a distant target for New Horizons
Phil Plait
Jul 20, 2017
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Goodnight, Pluto
Phil Plait
Mar 27, 2017
Pluto backlit by the Sun
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It turns out methane CAN simply walk into Mordor
Phil Plait
Mar 1, 2017
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New Horizons researchers reveal how Pluto's signature heart was formed
Jeff Spry
Sep 22, 2016
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With Pluto in the rear view, this is where NASA's New Horizons could be heading next
Trent Moore
May 23, 2016
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Scientists believe Pluto may have had rivers and lakes of liquid nitrogen
Trent Moore
Mar 22, 2016
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Image of the Day: The Frigid Frozen Canyons of Pluto's North Pole
Jeff Spry
Mar 4, 2016
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NASA's New Horizons team discovers vast reserves of H2O ice on Pluto
Jeff Spry
Feb 2, 2016
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New Horizons scientists reveal disastrous reason for Pluto's crater-free Sputnik Planum
Jeff Spry
Jan 7, 2016
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New Horizons captures first record-breaking images of distant Kuiper Belt object
Jeff Spry
Dec 10, 2015
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