New Horizons gave humanity its first up-close looks at Pluto on July 14, 2015, when the probe zoomed just 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) above the dwarf planet's frigid surface. The mission team ...

New Horizons captured this image of Pluto's receding crescent when as it bid farewell to the dwarf planet. The image was captured when New Horizons was 120,000 miles (200,000 kilometers) away from ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully demonstrated a revolutionary method for deep space navigation, as the probe ...

New Horizons makes it to Pluto, sees craters and mountains. The scientific case for closely studying MU69 is that it’s different from Pluto, much smaller, a “cold, ...

Pluto and its moons 7 photos. After an exhaustive search for heretofore unseen rings, small moons or other space debris, senior managers concluded Wednesday that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...

In Pluto’s shadow. New Horizons watched the sun set and rise behind Pluto in a momentary eclipse around 8:51 a.m., using sunlight and radio signals from Earth to examine Pluto’s atmosphere.

Pluto and its moons 7 photos. NASA's New Horizons probe, now just 10 million miles from Pluto and 14 days from a historic July 14 flyby, is operating in near flawless fashion, making increasingly ...

At 7:50am EDT tomorrow, July 14, New Horizons, the fastest spacecraft ever launched, will perform the first close-encounter flyby of Pluto and its system of five known moons. During […] Search for: ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first and only flyby of the Pluto system, culminating at the closest approach of ...

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

While for most people Pluto is the most distant planet in the Solar System, things get a lot more fuzzy once you pass Neptune ...

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