The last of the data from the New Horizons flyby won’t arrive until late 2016. Johns Hopkins University Applied physics laboratory/ Southwest Research Institute On July 14 at approximately 8 a.m.

Don't blame astronomers. Blame Jupiter and Saturn and a strange conspiracy that formed between them around 4 billion years ago. Pluto could have been a planet. All planets start small, assembling ...

The New Horizons spacecraft passed Pluto on Tuesday, according to NASA, establishing that mankind — or at least one of its robot probes — has now visited the far reaches of our planetary system. “It’s ...

“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) ...

The ominous warning – “winter is coming”, popularised by fantasy series Game of Thrones – applies equally well to Pluto. The dwarf planet’s tenuous atmosphere appears to be on the verge of a stunning ...

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will arrive at this dwarf planet on March 6, 2015. Pluto is the largest object in the Kuiper belt, and NASA’s New Horizons ...

Pluto, you’ve been replaced. An astronomer whose work axed Pluto from planet status says there’s evidence that a “real ninth planet” is lurking in the corners of our solar system. The far-away object ...

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