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The British scientist has given his backing to Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Initiatives project, which will provide $US100 million ($135.49 million) over the next decade to those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence. “Or do our lights wander a lifeless universe?”

“This terrain is not easy to explain”, said Jeff Moore, leader of the New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging Team.

Scientists do not know how Pluto formed such big mountains, the tallest of which juts nearly 11,000 feet (3,350 meters) off the ground, almost as high as the Canadian Rockies.

The distance of the New Horizon from Earth makes transmitting the photos faster impossible.

Bringing the blur of a distant world into sharp focus, NASA unveiled its first intimate images of Pluto on Wednesday, revealing with startling clarity an eerie realm where frozen water rises in mountains up to 11,000 feet high.

At 9 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, the spacecraft sent messages back to mission operations at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, confirming it had completed its mission, ending nerve-wracking hours for the craft’s operators on Earth. “While...

When it comes to landmark achievements in space exploration, today will be a date for the history books as the day humanity reached Pluto for the first time.

New Horizons’ closest approach was scheduled for 4:49 a.m. PDT when the spacecraft would be just 7,800 miles away – close enough to take the first high-resolution images of Pluto’s mottled landscape. But over the past few weeks, we have been able to enjoy...

Jesse Rogerson, a researcher at Toronto’s York University, says studying Pluto’s temperature and terrain will help scientists understand the evolution of various solar systems.