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Solar System

New Horizons Update: Astronomers are starting to understand Ultima Thule’s secrets

The Kuiper Belt object has been critically analysed since its flyby at the beginning of 2019, and astronomers are slowly understanding its nature

Space Exploration

New Horizons Update: Best-yet picture of Ultima Thule has been released

After the flyby of the Kuiper Belt object on the new year, astronomers have now released the finest image of Ultima Thule to date

Astronomy

Heroes of Space: Clyde Tombaugh

The amateur astronomer who discovered Pluto and visited the dwarf planet after his death

Space Exploration

New Horizons Update: Spacecraft reveals Ultima Thule as entirely new world

The Kuiper Belt Object’s remarkable appearance illuminates the processes that built the planets four and a half billion years ago

Space Exploration

New Horizons has already spotted something peculiar about Ultima Thule

The lack of a light curve when examining Ultima Thule has already caused a mystery before the target’s flyby

Space Exploration

New Horizons Update: Spacecraft takes inside course for Ultima Thule rendezvous

With no apparent hazards in its way, NASA’s mission has been given a “go” to stay on its optimal path to the Kuiper Belt Object

Space Exploration

Could there be an orbiter at Pluto in the near future?

Scientists and engineers are seriously discussing the possibility of sending an orbiter to Pluto and beyond into the Kuiper Belt

Astronomy

SPA revives its Sound of Astronomy ‘podcast’ after 50 years

A 50-year old ‘podcast’ has now returned to the airwaves with an updated twist and exciting new content

Space Exploration

NASA needs you! Help nickname New Horizons’ next flyby target

The team behind the Pluto mission is looking for your ideas on what to informally name its next flyby destination, a billion miles past the dwarf planet

Solar System

New Horizons Update: Spacecraft’s new target could be a ‘double Kuiper Belt Object’

The next flyby target for the NASA mission could actually be two targets

News

New Horizons Update: Spacecraft returns final bits of data from Pluto flyby

The NASA mission reached a major milestone this week when the last bits of science data from its flyby – arrived safely on Earth

News

New Horizons Update: Pluto found to spray paint largest moon red

“Who would have thought that Pluto is a graffiti artist?”

News

New Horizons Update: Methane snow found on Pluto’s peaks

A chain of exotic snowcapped mountains has been uncovered on the dwarf planet

News

New Horizons Update: Pluto’s moon could have had an ocean

New data suggests that Charon may have had a subsurface ocean that has long since frozen and expanded

News

New Horizons Update: Spacecraft discovers possible “icebergs” on Pluto

The nitrogen ice glaciers on Pluto appear to carry an intriguing cargo: numerous, isolated hills that may be fragments of water ice

News

New Horizons Update: Spacecraft finds more water ice on Pluto

New data points to more prevalent water ice on the dwarf planet’s surface

News

New Horizons Update: Spacecraft returns new images of possible ice volcano

Scientists have assembled the highest-resolution colour view of one of two potential cryovolcanoes

Solar System

VIDEO: New Horizons’ very best colour view of Pluto

Check out this movie, composed of the sharpest views of the dwarf planet during New Horizons flyby in July

News

New Horizons Update: Spacecraft uncovers new findings about Pluto and its moons

Five months after the spacecraft flew past Pluto, knowledge about the distant system continues to unfold

Space Exploration

Will there be other missions to Pluto?

With the success of New Horizons, will the dwarf planet be a target for more spacecraft in the future?

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