Washington: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is inching closer to creating history once again as it approaches for a close encounter of the ancient Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 – nicknamed Ultima Thule – on New Year’s Day. The Ultima flyby on January 1 will be the first-ever close-up exploration of a small Kuiper Belt object […]
New York: The reason Pluto lost its planet status is not valid and is erroneous, scientists argued challenging previously held theories. A team led by Philip Metzger, planetary scientist at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, noted that the basis on which Pluto was rejected as a planet has no support in the […]
Washington: Six-year-old Cara O’Connor of Ireland, who dreams of becoming a NASA astronaut one day, wrote a letter to the space agency urging it to reclassify Pluto as a planet, The Washington Post reported this week. Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the governing body of astronomy, the […]
New York: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past Pluto in 2015, will encounter the most primitive and most distant object in the history of space exploration, on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day in 2019. New Horizons’ next mission — the Kuiper Belt object, referred to as MU69 — is an icy world […]
Washington: After spotting stunning mountain ranges on Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons mission has now found evidence of exotic ice flowing across Pluto’s surface and a surprising extended haze – a phenomenon only seen on active worlds like Earth and Mars. In the northern region of Pluto’s Sputnik Planum, swirl-shaped patterns of light and dark suggest […]
Washington: The New Horizons probe has found a second mountain range situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain on the lower-left edge of Pluto. The new, less lofty mountain range lies near the bright, heart-shaped southwestern margin of Pluto’s Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region). The newly-discovered frozen peaks are estimated to be one-1.5 km […]
Washington: A close-up image of Pluto has revealed a vast, craterless plain – resembling frozen mud cracks on Earth that appears to be no more than 100 million years old and is still being shaped by geologic processes. This frozen region is north of Pluto’s icy mountains, in the centre-left of the heart feature named […]
Washington: NASA’s New Horizons probe has discovered a stunning mountain range on Pluto with peaks jutting as high as 11,000 feet above the surface. The data suggests that the Pluto’s surface was formed no more than 100 million years ago – a mere youngster in a 4.56-billion-year-old solar system. It also means that the close-up […]
Washington: Just two days away from the historic flyby of the mysterious Pluto system, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has taken the finest image of four dark spots on Pluto that continue to captivate millions on the Earth. The spots appear on the side of Pluto that always faces its largest moon Charon – the face […]
Los Angeles: A heart-shaped feature was viewed on Pluto’s surface in the most detailed photo yet returned by NASA’s New Horizons probe, which has now begun its final run of its historic flyby of the planet In the early morning hours on Wednesday, mission scientists received the clearest image of the reddish-brownish dwarf planet by […]
Washington: A software glitch that triggered communication loss with NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft has been rectified and the probe is on way for a Pluto fly-by on July 14, the US space agency has said. The investigation into the anomaly that caused New Horizons to enter “safe mode” last weekend has concluded that no hardware […]
Washington: NASA’s New Horizon probe, set for a Pluto flyby on July 14 has confirmed that there is frozen methane on Pluto’s surface. The Earth-based astronomers first observed Methane on Pluto in 1976. “We already knew there was methane on Pluto but these are our first detections,” said Will Grundy, team leader with the Lowell […]
Washington: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, on way to meet Pluto, has taken fresh images of the mysterious planet that reveal more detail about its complex and high contrast surface. The images were taken from just under 77 million km away, using the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on New Horizons. “As New Horizons closes in on […]
Washington: For the first time, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has photographed Kerberos and Styx – the smallest and faintest of Pluto’s five known moons. It completes the Pluto family as of now. If the spacecraft observes any additional moons as it gets closer to Pluto, they will be worlds that no one has seen before. […]
Washington: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the sharpest possible pictures of the Kuiper Belt Object (KBO), nicknamed Ultima Thule, captured just before its closest approach. The new images of Ultima Thule was obtained by the telephoto Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) just six-and-a-half minutes before New Horizons’ closest approach to the object (officially named […]
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