22 June 2020
Icy Pluto may have started off hot with an early ocean
...change of water as it freezes, say Carver Bierson and Francis Nimmo of the University of California Santa Cruz and S. Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, who have scrutinised high-resolution images of these features on Pluto. But...
21 September 2015
New pictures of ‘surprisingly Earth-like’ Pluto by New Horizons
... away. Features such as mountains, ice and an atmosphere were eerily reminiscent to the Earth’s own Arctic region. As Alan Stern, principal investigator at New Horizons, put it: “Pluto is surprisingly Earth-like in this regard, and no one predicted...
20 March 2017
Scientists challenge how planets are defined
..., Jupiter and Neptune too, as they share their orbits with asteroids. This is a point co-author of the definition S. Alan Stern, and the principal investigator for the New Horizons mission, has argued in the past. So what is the...
