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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015 and kept going, and in January 2019 it photographed a small icy world called Arrokoth four billion miles from the Sun, the most distant object ever visited, shaped like two snowballs gently stuck together - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:30:00 GMTIt takes more energy to slow a spacecraft into orbit around Mercury than it does to fly directly to Pluto, because the Sun's gravity accelerates anything falling toward the inner solar system — a counterintuitive physics problem that forced BepiColombo to loop aro - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:30:00 GMTThe James Webb Space Telescope just found the same unidentified molecule on both Titan and Pluto — two worlds with almost nothing in common — and scientists say they cannot yet match it to any known substance in any existing database - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:30:00 GMTIn 1980 NASA had to choose between sending Voyager 1 past Titan or keeping it on a course that could reach Pluto, and it picked Titan, ending the mission's planet-hopping for good — the flyby flung the probe out of the plane of the planets, and it never made - Space DailySpace Daily · Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:30:13 GMTAll About Pluto: Explore The Peculiar Dwarf Planet - Star WalkStar Walk · Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMTPluto was expected to be a frozen, cratered relic, but when New Horizons flew past in 2015 it found flowing nitrogen glaciers, mountains of water ice and hints of a hidden ocean, on a world where the Sun looks like just a bright star - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:40:27 GMTThe bright nitrogen ice plain forming the left lobe of Pluto's heart has not a single impact crater anywhere on it, which tells planetary scientists the surface is being churned from below and completely replaced on a cycle short enough that parts of that ground ar - Space DailySpace Daily · Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:30:10 GMT