It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

It was one of the most ambitious missions for NASA since the turn of the century, with photos reshaping what scientists know ...

At the far reaches of our Solar System lies Pluto, a mysterious world shrouded in shadows and icy terrain. NASA’s latest ...

Pluto is the tiniest planet in our solar system with a diameter of roughly 2,377 kilometers, making it even smaller than our ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

These computer-generated maps of Pluto at different longitudes were made from the current best images of the planet, taken in 2002-2003 by the Hubble Space Telescope.

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

After traveling billions of kilometers, NASA’s New Horizons gave us one final gift - images of Pluto and Arrokoth that no spacecraft may ever surpass. These are the last direct observations of two icy ...

NASA's leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for the agency, which is already bracing for potentially severe funding ...

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...

“This pioneering interstellar navigation demonstration and its accompanying publication show that a deep-space mission can ...