Moonlight on Pluto has revealed some of the dwarf planet’s dark side. On its way past Pluto in 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft turned around and took pictures of this world’s back, and after a ...

Henry Brean Oct 31, 2021 Oct 31, 2021 Updated Dec 6, 2022 As shutterbugs know all too well, light is the key ingredient of any photograph. But where can you find the illumination you need when your ...

When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zipped past Pluto in 2015, it showed a world that was much more dynamic than anyone had imagined. The dwarf planet hosts icy nitrogen cliffs that resemble the ...

A NASA spacecraft snapped some images of the dark side of Pluto while it was making an approach with the dwarf planet back in 2015. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft turned around to take some images of ...

During its departure from Pluto, New Horizons used its LORRI camera to image a portion of Pluto’s southern hemisphere that was in a decades-long seasonal winter darkness, but still very faintly ...

The heart-shaped Sputnik Planitia on Pluto’s near side, as imaged by New Horizons. Image: (NASA/New Horizons) When New Horizons zipped past Pluto on July 14, 2015, the NASA spacecraft was only able to ...

[On January 4, 2012, I started a new features: BAFacts, where I write an astronomy/space fact that is short enough to be tweeted. A lot of them reference older posts, but some of the facts need a ...

“This is definitely an extraordinary system,” Cathy Olkin, New Horizons Deputy Project Scientist, told NOVA Next on Tuesday. Pluto is a celestial oddball in more ways than one. It’s the only (former) ...

Pluto’s heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio could be considered the dwarf planet's aesthetic highlight. This colossal, highly reflective geologic feature was captured with beautiful clarity by NASA’s New ...

The stack presented in Figure 7 now rotated to place north at the top of the figure. The dashed circle shows the location of Pluto’s limb. The graphical representation presented in Figure 1 is ...