Before his work on NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, Lauer has spent the last 25 years of his career as a professional astronomer doing similar sharpness corrections on photos taken by the ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto last July, and it took the most detailed images of the planet that have ever been seen. NASA just released some of the ...

When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto in 2015, it returned images with a sweet surprise: a heart-shaped formation dominating the surface of the dwarf planet. Now, researchers believe ...

Today, NASA's New Horizons team - which sent the first spacecraft in history to fly over Pluto last week - revealed the latest set of Pluto images that came with some big surprsies and new mysteries.

Before New Horizons, the best images of Pluto revealed nothing more than a few light and dark patches. The best Hubble Telescope images were only 150 pixels across. The new pictures show much more ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary ...

The machine involved taking pairs of photos of ... sent its probe New Horizons on a flyby in 2015. It confirmed the tiny planet harbored an ocean beneath its thick, icy shell. Pluto was always ...

He had taken the photos the previous month ... We’ve learned a lot about poor, poor little Pluto — thanks to NASA’s New Horizons probe, which visited the dwarf planet in 2015.

the discovery of a new planet. The search for Pluto did not begin with Clyde Tombaugh, to be fair. That distinction belongs to the visionary astronomer Percival Lowell. In 1894, Lowell founded ...

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