Mission scientists have found Pluto to be 1,473 miles (2,370 kilometers) in diameter, somewhat larger than many prior estimates. Images acquired with the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were ...
Pluto is a little larger than astronomers previously believed, the New Horizons spacecraft has revealed. This could reveal new information about the distant icy dwarf. New Horizons is the first ...
Humankind got closer to Pluto than ever before on Tuesday morning, with NASA’s New Horizons probe flying just 6,000 miles from the former planet. The unprecedented proximity to Pluto has provided ...
On the eve of NASA's historic flyby of Pluto, scientists announced Monday that the New Horizons spacecraft has nailed the size of the faraway icy world. Measurements by the spacecraft set to sweep ...
At a press conference, New Horizons' top dog Alan Stern just announced that his team has calculated Pluto's most accurate diameter yet: about 1,473 miles from one end to the other, give or take 12 ...
The second part of this question is much easier to answer than the first. We will definitely get a different number for Eris’ size once a spacecraft visits it. Spacecraft measurements can be thousands ...
Finally, a family portrait of Pluto is beginning to emerge! For the first time ever, astronomers have captured two never-before-photographed moons orbiting Pluto. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...
Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...