Evidence for Large-Scale Cryovolcanism on Pluto
The New Horizons mission revolutionized our understanding of Pluto with its 2015 fly-by, revealing a diverse planetary surface with a range of apparent ages. The topographic rises of Wright and […]
The New Horizons mission revolutionized our understanding of Pluto with its 2015 fly-by, revealing a diverse planetary surface with a range of apparent ages. The topographic rises of Wright and […]
In the search for extraterrestrial life, liquid water has long been regarded as crucial, and subsurface oceans on moons and other rocky bodies in the outer solar system have emerged […]
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 […]
Following the successful exploration of the Pluto system and the classical TNO Arrokoth, new spacecraft mission concepts are being studied to again target dwarf planets and minor bodies of the […]
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 […]
While the surface of Pluto is frigid today, its formation was likely to have been a hot, violent affair, according to a new study led by Carver Bierson of the […]
The western edge of Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia is home to a dramatic range of chaotic, fragmentary mountain blocks that rise more than a kilometer above the nitrogen ice plains that […]
The New Horizons spacecraft discovered that the temperature of Pluto’s atmosphere is much lower than the previous estimates. The cooling mechanism is still a mystery, although modeling by Xi Zhang […]
Sunday, 3:30 pm at DPS Provo, Battle Creek Room Interested DPS members please join us Sunday, October 15th, from 3:30-5:30 pm for a focused workshop on future missions to the […]
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 […]
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 only ended […]
We invite contributions to a special session on the geology of Pluto, its large moon Charon, and the smaller satellites Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra, at the 2016 GSA Annual […]
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, […]
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 […]
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface […]