New Horizons found the dwarf planet's very own Mordor.
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Pluto’s Would-Be Ice Volcanoes Get a Close Look
How NASA Is Steering New Horizons Toward a Tiny Space Rock in the Kuiper Belt
New Horizons' earthbound navigators need to steer the craft to a near collision course with the Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69.
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Charon’s Organa Crater Glows With the Force … Er, Ammonia
New Horizons picked up a strange spectral signature from a crater named after a famed extraterrestrial princess.
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Pluto Has Skies of Blue and Frozen Water
NASA's New Horizons mission keeps sending home the hits. This week: blue skies and frozen water!
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NASA’s Highest-Res Photos Yet Show Pluto’s Bizarre Geology
See Pluto's mountains and basins in "extended color"
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Watch: Pluto’s Sunset as Seen by New Horizons
New Horizons is sending back tens of gigabits of data collected during the Pluto flyby, including increasingly kick-ass photos of the icy rock.
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New Photos of Pluto’s Haze, Backlit and In Glorious Detail
Getting up close and personal with Pluto's atmosphere and exotic ices.
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Watch: New Horizons Begins to Send Back All Its Pluto Pics
It'll take a year for New Horizons to send back all the information it gathered on Pluto when it flew by the dwarf planet in July.
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The First Pluto Photos From New Horizons’ Massive Data Dump
The New Horizons space probe has started a year-long data dump of imagery and other large files taken during its July flyby.
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Pluto dazzles in first new images downloaded since July’s flyby
The New Horizons spacecraft has sent back fresh, stunning photos that it took of the distant icy world when it flew by on 14 July
