On This Day, July 14: NASA's New Horizons gets closest look yet at Pluto
On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons space probe came within 7,800 miles of Pluto, providing NASA scientists with the clearest photographs and most detailed measurements they've ever seen of the dwarf…
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"All these discoveries from pioneering missions like Voyager and New Horizons teach us how little we know about what lies beyond."
space.com·8d agoNASA's New Horizons probe wakes from hibernation 6 billion miles beyond Pluto
"All these discoveries from pioneering missions like Voyager and New Horizons teach us how little we know about what lies beyond."
space.com·8d agoNASA's New Horizons probe wakes from hibernation 6 billion miles beyond Pluto
"All these discoveries from pioneering missions like Voyager and New Horizons teach us how little we know about what lies beyond."
Space·8d agoNASA's New Horizons probe wakes from hibernation 6 billion miles beyond Pluto
"All these discoveries from pioneering missions like Voyager and New Horizons teach us how little we know about what lies beyond."
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A groundbreaking mission that explored Pluto and distant solar system objects in unprecedented detail has
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