Dark Side of Pluto Imaged in Charon’s Moonlight
The New Horizons flyby of Pluto in 2015 captured many stunning images of the sunlit side of the dwarf planet. However, much of Pluto, including the south pole, remained in […]
The New Horizons flyby of Pluto in 2015 captured many stunning images of the sunlit side of the dwarf planet. However, much of Pluto, including the south pole, remained in […]
NASA’s New Horizons mission, whose aim is to understand those worlds located in the outer regions of our solar system, recently reached a new milestone. On April 17, 2021, New Horizons […]
In 2015, the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) instrument onboard the New Horizons spacecraft revealed bright, methane-rich frosts atop 3.5-kilometer-high mountains in the Cthulu region of Pluto. These methane-rich frosts possess […]
The small Kuiper Belt object officially known as Arrokoth — or by its provisional designation (486958) 2014 MU69 — is the most distant and most primitive object ever explored by a spacecraft. It […]
One year ago, the New Horizons spacecraft approached a mysterious object, 486958 Arrokoth, orbiting in the Kuiper Belt, a collection of small objects that revolve around the Sun beyond Neptune. […]
Very early on New Year’s Day 2019, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountered its second major mission target — a Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, after a classical and medieval […]
The dates for the Pluto System After New Horizons (PSANH), an international science conference on the Pluto system and the Kuiper Belt, have shifted by two days to July 14–18, […]
The book Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto was published earlier this week and it’s getting great reviews. My co-author, David Grinspoon, and I put our heart […]
Small Bodies Node of the NASA Planetary Data System is pleased to announce a new release of the New Horizons data. It contains the remaining (P3) Pluto Flyby data (level […]
The dates for the international science conference on the Pluto system and the Kuiper Belt have been moved to July 12-16, 2019. Please mark your calendars accordingly! Unfortunately, these new […]
July 14-22, 2018 Pasadena, California The session will consist of six solicited review papers and ten or more contributed papers. While the review papers will focus on results and insights from […]
We invite submissions across a broad range of topics: New Horizons’ July 2015 encounter with the Pluto system revolutionized our understanding of dwarf planets and the Kuiper belt. Data return […]
This year’s annual Geological Society of America meeting features numerous sessions devoted to planetary sciences. We would like to highlight the session titled “Friends of Hoth: Satellites of the Outer […]
A special issue of Icarus brings together papers about Pluto system science. In 2015, NASA’s New Horizons mission conducted the first ever reconnaissance of the Pluto system. Partly fueled by this flyby, […]
In September, the New Horizons team released a stunning but incomplete image of Pluto’s crescent. Thanks to new processing work by the science team, New Horizons is releasing the entire, […]
Tuesday November 10th, 12:20pm – 1:30pm, Annapolis 3 This lunchtime workshop will discuss needs and opportunities for Earth-based KBO observations to support the potential New Horizons extended mission to the […]
From Pluto’s unusual heart-shaped region to its extended atmosphere and intriguing moons, New Horizons has revealed a degree of diversity and complexity in the Pluto system that few expected in […]
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best color and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon – and these pictures show a surprisingly complex and violent […]
Icy mountains on Pluto and a new, crisp view of its largest moon, Charon, are among the several discoveries announced Wednesday by NASA’s New Horizons team, just one day after […]
The call everyone was waiting for is in. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft phoned home just before 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday to tell the mission team and the world it had […]