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Destination Pluto: Countdown to the historic New Horizons fly-by

10 July 2015

The latest images of Pluto, a checklist of mysteries waiting to be solved. And Â鶹´«Ã½ will be covering all the action – live from mission control

New Horizons hiccup won't affect Pluto mission science

6 July 2015

NASA says temporary loss of contact with the spacecraft over the weekend was a one-off and won't affect its historic arrival at the dwarf planet next week

Best-ever images of Pluto reveal baffling pepperoni slices

2 July 2015

A line of dark spots across the dwarf planet's equator make it look like a pizza and have left researchers scratching their heads

Pluto's strange family of moons are locked in a mysterious waltz

3 June 2015

Three of Pluto's four small moons are moving in step, and the fourth looks darker than the rest – creating a puzzle as to how they formed

How we've got to know Pluto

29 May 2015

Land ho: NASA spacecraft may have seen polar ice cap on Pluto

30 April 2015

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is 98 per cent of the way to Pluto, and it's getting better pictures than Hubble

Two mysterious bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres are not alike

13 April 2015

The bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres continue to baffle scientists as infrared images reveal they have different thermal properties

The moon's got two tails – and its friends might too

31 March 2015

The man in the moon wears a tailcoat. The discovery of a second stream of particles from the moon's dark side suggests a way to probe alien worlds from afar

Bright spots on Ceres could be water volcanoes

18 March 2015

Images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft show that a mysterious bright spot on dwarf planet Ceres could be a plume of water spurting from a deep, icy crater

NASA's Dawn becomes first probe to orbit dwarf planet

6 March 2015

From its vantage point around one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, Dawn could unlock a time capsule from the formation of our solar system