Being heartbroken for 2 months fades in comparison to Pluto’s heart ... yet the spacecraft crossed the diameter of Pluto just in 3 minutes. “Before New Horizons, everyone thought Pluto was ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...