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28 Oct 2016

NASA's New Horizons transmits last bits of Pluto flyby data to Earth!

NASA says it was the last of the 50-plus total gigabits of Pluto system data transmitted to Earth by New Horizons over the past 15 months.

15 Jul 2016

Check out - New Horizons’ top 10 discoveries at Pluto! (Watch video)

New Horizons, moving at speeds that would get it from New York to Los Angeles in about four minutes, pointing its cameras, spectrometers, and other sensors at the frozen world and its moons, captured hundreds of pictures and other science data that would forever change our view of the outer solar system.

02 Jul 2016

After Pluto, New Horizons set to explore Kuiper Belt

The New Horizons mission team has received the green light to fly onward to an object deeper in the Kuiper Belt.

17 Jun 2016

New view from NASA's New Horizons - The jagged shores of Pluto’s highlands (Pic inside)

NASA says the scene was created using three separate observations made by New Horizons in July 2015.

17 Jun 2016

New Horizons' best close-up of Pluto's surface – Watch!

The images in the mosaic were obtained by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) instrument on board the NASA probe.

01 May 2016

See pic: NASA releases updated global map of Pluto!

It is all courtesy New Horizons, that NASA is able to provide viewers with amazing discoveries.

20 Jan 2016

New Horizons anniversary: Ten years ago today, Pluto probe rocketed into sky

Ten years ago on this day, 19 January, 2006, the small probe - weighing barely 1,000 pounds - lifted off from Cape Canaveral.

18 Dec 2015

NASA's New Horizons gives insight into Pluto's latest discoveries

New Horizons is all set to provide new insights on the solar system's farthest planet.

New Horizons spacecraft

23 Oct 2015

New Horizons sends images of Pluto's tiny moon Kerberos

According to NASA, Kerberos appears to be smaller than scientists expected and has a highly-reflective surface.

16 Oct 2015

NASA probe unveils Pluto's striking surface variations

The colour images of Pluto obtained with New Horizon's Multi-spectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) show a wide range of colours across Pluto's surface - from dark, red regions at the equator to brighter, bluer regions at higher latitudes.

13 Oct 2015

NASA's New Horizons locates Pluto's smallest moon Styx

New images from the New Horizons also reveal the size and shape of Styx - the faintest of Pluto’s five moons.

18 Sep 2015

See pic: Stunning image from New Horizons reveal 'arctic look' of Pluto

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has delivered new images of Pluto revealing new details about the icy planet's majestic mountains, frozen plains and foggy hazes.

11 Sep 2015

Picture: New Pluto images from New Horizons show mysterious complexity

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has returned new close-up images of Pluto to the Earth that show an amazing range of features on the planet's surface and in its atmosphere.

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