When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sped by Pluto in 2015, it revealed an incredible world of ice and haze carved by various geological processes — hinting that an ocean may have played a role in the ...

This view of Pluto is dominated by Pluto’s “heart,” a region of icy plains. Members of the New Horizons team gather around a laptop as they review newly processed images being sent from the New ...

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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 ...

Now scientists await a bounty of new data about the small, mysterious icy body, the most distant object ever visited. By Kenneth Chang The probe that visited Pluto will study a mysterious icy world ...

The Henrico County native who led NASA’s successful mission to Pluto in July will speak to high school seniors at her alma mater next week. Alice Bowman is the missions operation manager at NASA and ...

When the International Astronomical Union announced in 2006 that Pluto was being demoted from its status as the Sun’s ninth planet, many astronomers and non-experts alike were shocked. Pluto remains ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got humanity's first up-close look at Pluto on Tuesday, sending word of its triumph across 3 billion miles to scientists waiting breathlessly ...

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