Pluto flyby mission wakes up after long sleep nearly 6 billion miles from Earth

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently came out of hibernation to continue its journey through an unexplored part of the ...

NASA’s New Horizons travelled 3 billion miles over 9 years to reach Pluto – but it was moving too fast to stop when it arrived

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft completed its swift flyby of Pluto after a nine-year journey. The mission prioritized data ...
Phys.org

Methane gas found on dwarf planet Makemake

A Southwest Research Institute-led team has reported the first detection of gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This discovery makes Makemake only ...
WRAL

Interstellar object ʻOumuamua may be a fragment of Pluto-like planet

The first observed interstellar object zipped through our solar system in October 2017 -- and astronomers have been trying to understand it ever since. Scientists scrambled to observe the object ...

11 Years After Historic Flyby, Scientists Discover Giant Landslides on Pluto

The rare encounter revealed a distant world with giant ice sheets, mountains, valleys, and terrains unlike any other seen in ...
KVIA

Astronomers find atmosphere around a solar system object that shouldn’t have one

(CNN) — Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a tiny celestial body in the outer solar system for the first time — an object previously thought to be too small to support the presence of ...
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Pluto photos from NASA's New Horizons still captivating scientists decade after historic flyby

For decades, Pluto remained one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, until July 14, 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to visit it up close, capturing ...