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

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 about the distant world.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made history by flying past Pluto, sending back groundbreaking data that would change our ...

NASA’s New Horizons made history by revealing the unseen face of Pluto, for centuries this icy world remained a mystery ...

If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s.

Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

We are about three days from seeing even more images of Pluto like never before. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will fly by at its closest distance to Pluto at approximately 7:49 a.m., July 14 ...

The flyby added 9,000 miles per hour, pushing New Horizons past 50,000 miles per hour and setting up a flight by Pluto in July 2015. The number of observations at Jupiter was twice that of those ...

New Horizons has covered about one-third of the distance from Pluto to its next flyby target, which is now about 600 million miles (nearly 1 billion kilometers) ahead. Related Tagged: NASA , Pluto ...

New Horizons launched in 2006, and conducted a flyby of Pluto in 2015, which gave humanity the clearest images of the dwarf planet to date. In 2019, in the far stretches of the solar system beyond ...

When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Jan. 19, 2006, with a mission to rendezvous with the most distant celestial body in our solar system, Pluto, project ...