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As it has neared the dwarf planet, the probe has been sending back increasingly clearer images of its target, and got as close as possible at around 11.50am GMT Tuesday – that’s 12.50pm United Kingdom time, 4.50am Pacific time or 9.50pm Australian time. The probe...

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...

His work involved thousands of hours spent pouring over millions of images of stars, according to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which is managing the New Horizons mission for NASA.

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.

An image captured by the New Horizons spacecraft and rolled out by NASA on Saturday, displays Pluto’s mystifying dark spots, which are regularly spaced apart and around 300 miles across each. The curtain hasn’t been pulled back like this since NASA’s Voyager 2...