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 ...
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 ...
NASA's New Horizons mission has answered one of the most basic questions about Pluto—how big is it? Mission scientists have found Pluto to be 1,473 miles in diameter, somewhat larger than many prior ...
Update, July 13, 3015 at 20:00 UTC: Emily Lakdawalla has also written about this on her blog, with more details. Update 2, July 13, 2015 at 20:30 UTC: There has been some confusion about the ...
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 ...
JUDY WOODRUFF: After a three-billion-mile journey by a spacecraft named New Horizons, NASA finally had the chance today to release the first ever close-up photos of the dwarf planet Pluto. The images ...
The Hubble Space Telescope may be getting old, but it still has excellent spotting power — witness its discovery of a fourth moon of Pluto, which is between 8 miles and 21 miles in diameter. Says ...
Astronomers looking for rings around Pluto have instead made an unexpected find: a fourth moon circling the dwarf planet. The object, temporarily designated P4, is probably the most dwarvish of ...
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