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NASA’s New Horizons captures stunning footage of ice mountains on Pluto’s moon Nix

NASA’sNew Horizons spacecraft has delivered extraordinary video footage showing towering ice mountains on Pluto’s moon Nix.

Why Pluto is the planet (yes, we said ‘planet’) we need right now

Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was ...
NBC 10 Philadelphia

NASA's Pluto Probe Phones Home, Signaling Successful Flyby

It's official: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has gotten humanity's first up-close look at Pluto. The spacecraft sent word of its triumph Tuesday across 3 billion miles to scientists waiting ...
NBC 6 South Florida

‘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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Pluto has not completed a full orbit since its 1930 discovery

Pluto will complete its first orbit since 1930 in 2178, a historic 248-year space journey that spans generations of humans.

Discovered in 1930, Pluto still has not finished one full orbit— And it won’t until year 2178

Pluto has not completed a single orbit since its 1930 discovery. With a 248-year journey around the Sun, the dwarf planet will finish its first full circuit in 2178.