Despite being some six billion kilometers away, the sun from Pluto would be a dazzling sight to behold—carefully, that is Imagine, for a moment, that you are an intrepid space explorer, jaunting ...
As the New Horizons space probe races towards its close encounter with Pluto in three days time, it’s just beamed back the best view we’ll ever get of the face of Pluto turned permanently towards its ...
During its departure from Pluto, New Horizons used its LORRI camera to image a portion of Pluto’s southern hemisphere that was in a decades-long seasonal winter darkness, but still very faintly ...