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 ...

Subaru Telescope has been collaborating with the NASA’s first Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission called “New Horizons.” This article introduces the mission features and research contents. Solar system ...

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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 ...

(CNN) -- Images of Pluto captured by NASA's New Horizons mission have revealed a new surprise: ice volcanoes. The spacecraft performed a flyby of the dwarf planet and its moons in July 2015, and the ...