Pluto
Tokyo sends huge plutonium cache – enough to make 50 nuclear bombs – to US
Japan will send a huge cache of plutonium – enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs – to the United States as part of a deal to return the material...
Scientists baffled as newest Pluto pictures reveal land of mountains and dunes
NASA has released new photos which show mountains, possible dunes and multiple layers of haze on the dwarf planet Pluto. The images were taken by...
Boffins baffled as newest Pluto pictures reveal land of mountains and dunes
NASA has released new photos which show mountains, possible dunes and multiple layers of haze on the dwarf planet Pluto. The images were taken by...
NASA spacecraft phones home after historic Pluto flypast
A U.S. spacecraft sailed past the tiny planet Pluto in the distant reaches of the solar system on Tuesday, capping a journey of 3 billion miles (4.88 billion...
NASA probe calls home to say it survived historic Pluto flypast
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made contact after surviving a flypast of the dwarf planet Pluto. Confirmation of the mission’s success...
This amazing photo of Pluto is just the beginning, NASA says
The veil has been pulled back from the surface of Pluto: A jaw-dropping new photo of the dwarf planet taken by NASA’s New Horizons probe reveals...
Greetings from Pluto: Dwarf planet is bigger than scientists thought
On the eve of NASA’s historic flyby of Pluto, scientists announced Monday that the New Horizons spacecraft has nailed the size of the faraway icy...
Greetings from Pluto: Minor planet is bigger than scientists thought
On the eve of NASA’s historic flyby of Pluto, scientists announced Monday that the New Horizons spacecraft has nailed the size of the faraway icy...
Mysterious Pluto turns out to be bigger than expected
Mysterious Pluto looms large and turns out to be larger than expected as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft wraps up a nearly decade-long journey, with...
After three billion miles, fastest ever spacecraft set to make Pluto flypast
The fastest spacecraft ever built is on its final approach for a pioneering rendezvous with Pluto. New Horizons is closing in on the dwarf planet...
Little Pluto bigger than scientists thought as flyby looms
Little Pluto is a little bigger than anyone imagined. On the eve of NASA’s historic flyby of Pluto, scientists announced Monday the New Horizons...
‘Not yet explored’ no more: New Horizons flying stamp to Pluto
They are three words that, after next week, will never be used to describe the dwarf planet Pluto again.
North becomes south: Life on Pluto’s topsy-turvy moons revealed by Hubble
Pluto’s outer moons are continuously toppled and turned as they battle the joint gravitational forces of their parent planet and its primary moon...
In focus: Blurry Pluto to become clear with NASA flyby
The best picture we have of Pluto is a blurry, pixelated blob, but that’s about to change when a NASA spacecraft makes the first-ever flyby of the...
New Horizons to be snapped as NASA craft starts beaming Pluto pics
Nine years after leaving Earth, the New Horizons spacecraft is at last drawing close to Pluto and is expected to start shooting photographs of the dwarf...
Epic flyby: NASA’s New Horizons probe begins six-month approach to Pluto
U.S. space agency NASA said its New Horizons spacecraft Thursday officially began its six-month approach to Pluto, with the first close-up flyby scheduled...
NASA craft to probe Pluto after nine-year journey
An American probe that will explore Pluto woke up from its slumber Saturday, after a nine-year journey to take a close look at the distant body for the...
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