Pluto
The First New Horizons Study Reveals a Fascinating, Mysterious Pluto
Posted in Science on 16th Oct, 2015
by Alex Muller
A few months after the Pluto flyby, the science is coming in.
New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto
Posted in Science on 9th Oct, 2015
by Alex Muller
'Understanding why water appears exactly where it does, and not in other places, is a challenge that we are digging into.'
New Horizons resumes image return
Posted in Science on 12th Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller
The return of imagery is now pretty much constant. This means the team will in future be releasing views, and their interpretation of them, on a regular basis.
Planetoid a billion miles beyond Pluto selected as New Horizons' next destination
Posted in Science on 30th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller
NASA has selected the next potential destination for the unmanned spacecraft, a planetoid called 2014 MU69.
Pluto and nitrogen: Why is there so much gas?
Posted in Science on 15th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller
NASA's New Horizons craft has revealed that Pluto has so much nitrogen that hundreds of tons of it escape into space each hour.