- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- July 23rd, 2015
Yet Another Mountain Range Discovered on Dwarf Planet Pluto
New Horizons imaged the peaks during its flyby of the orb
- Editorials
- By Laura Sinpetru
- July 19th, 2015
Sorry Not Sorry, Pluto Doesn’t Deserve Being Called a Planet
Astronomers weren’t just being mean when they demoted it
- Science Blog
- By Laura Sinpetru
- July 18th, 2015
Watch: Animated Flyover of Dwarf Planet Pluto
NASA video reveals Pluto's intriguing landscapes
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- July 18th, 2015
New Horizons Beams Back View of Frozen Plains on Dwarf Planet Pluto
These aliens plains formed about 100 million years ago
- Science Blog
- By Laura Sinpetru
- July 17th, 2015
A Mountain Is Lurking Inside a Ditch on Pluto's Moon Charon
The odd peak was spotted by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- July 16th, 2015
Stephen Colbert, Neil deGrasse Tyson Talk NASA's Pluto Mission
Stephen grills Neil for demoting Pluto, calling it a dwarf
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- July 16th, 2015
New Horizons Sees Budding Mountain Range on Dwarf Planet Pluto
The find suggests the orb might be geologically active
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- July 14th, 2015
New Horizons Didn't Communicate with Base During Its Pluto Flyby
It's just that it was too busy collecting data
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- July 14th, 2015
NASA's New Horizons Mission to Pluto Explained
Here's what you need to know about this history-making epic
- Science Blog
- By Laura Sinpetru
- July 14th, 2015
9 Years After Launch, New Horizons Finally Reaches Pluto
Minutes ago, the probe made its closest approach to the orb
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- July 14th, 2015
New Horizons Just Hours Away from Completing Historic Pluto Flyby
The flyby will happen at 7:49 a.m. EDT, NASA says
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- July 13th, 2015
New Horizons Carries the Ashes of Pluto Discoverer Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde Tombaugh discovered dwarf planet Pluto in 1930
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- July 9th, 2015
NASA's New Horizons Sees Big Bright Heart on Dwarf Planet Pluto
Pluto's heart measures 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) across
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- July 4th, 2015
NASA Video Reveals Pluto and Its Moon Charon in Living Color
The video comprises views obtained by the New Horizons probe
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- June 4th, 2015
Pluto's Moons Nix and Hydra Wobble Unpredictably in Their Orbits
The orbs' peculiar shape is partly to blame
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- May 20th, 2015
NASA's New Horizons Probe Might Deliver Earth Selfie to Aliens
Space enthusiasts want to beam a crowdsourced message to the probe, hope aliens will one day decipher it
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- May 14th, 2015
New Horizons Delivers Its First View of Pluto Moons Kerberos and Styx
The orbs were imaged by NASA's New Horizons probe from a distance of over 55 million miles (88.5 million kilometers)