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It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...
It was one of the most ambitious missions for NASA since the turn of the century, with photos reshaping what scientists know ...
At the far reaches of our Solar System lies Pluto, a mysterious world shrouded in shadows and icy terrain. NASA’s latest ...
Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.
Pluto is the tiniest planet in our solar system with a diameter of roughly 2,377 kilometers, making it even smaller than our ...
How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...
By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...
Astronomers have discovered yet another alien visitor to the Solar System.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...
The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?
“This pioneering interstellar navigation demonstration and its accompanying publication show that a deep-space mission can ...