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New Horizons’ historic Pluto flyby reveals mountains of ice, vast glaciers, and the hidden complexity of the solar system’s most mysterious world

When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, it transformed our understanding of the distant dwarf planet. What scientists discovered was far more complex than expected: towering ...
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NASA's New Horizons Will Visit Ultima Thule on New Year's Day

LAUREL, Md. — NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past Pluto in 2015, will zip past another icy world nicknamed Ultima Thule on New Year’s Day, gathering information on what is believed to be a ...
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‘We're Going to Knock Your Socks Off': NASA Spacecraft to Sweep by Pluto

Pluto, reveal thyself, and Earthlings, enjoy the show. On Tuesday, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will sweep past Pluto and present the previously unexplored world in all its icy glory. It promises to ...
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NASA's Stern to stay on as New Horizons principal investigator

TWO HATS: Alan Stern, NASA's newly named associate administrator for science, will continue as principal investigator (PI) on the New Horizons Pluto flyby mission that he shepherd to the launch pad in ...