At around 7:50 a.m. on Tuesday, the NASA spacecraft New Horizons flew past Pluto after a nine-and-a-half-year journey through the blackness of space. It's the closest humankind has come to our solar ...

Six years ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history with the first up-close exploration of the Pluto system – providing breathtaking views and detailed data on Pluto and its largest moon, ...

Photos transmitted from 4 billion miles away by NASA’s New Horizons Pluto space probe have sparked fresh interest in space exploration. New Horizons traveled more than 3 billion miles over a ...

Pluto's largest moon Charon is captured glowing in "Plutoshine" in this photo taken by New Horizon in 2015. Because sunlight is weak at Pluto's distance, the photo looks pixelated. Credit: NASA/Johns ...

WEBVTT KATE? KATE: WHETHER YOU BELIEVE PLUTO IS, OR WAS, OUR NINTH PLANET DOES NOT MATTER BECAUSE SCIENTISTS AGREE THAT PLUTO HAS A LOT TO TEACH US ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THE EARTH AND OUR SOLAR SYSTEM.

Astronomers have made several discoveries that expand the range and value of a future Pluto orbiter mission. The breakthroughs define a fuel-saving orbital tour and demonstrate that an orbiter can ...

This is a BBS met in addition, I am Maureen Cavanaugh. My fuzzy light and the distant reaches of of our solar system to the detailed look on the surface of an alien world. That's our image on a tour ...

The New Horizons flyby of Pluto and its satellites returned a scientific treasure trove of information about these distant and surprisingly complex worlds, showing a vast nitrogen glacier as well as ...

The US Postal Service now has an answer to its 1991 "Not Yet Explored" Pluto stamp, the same one the New Horizons team affixed to their probe before it started its journey to the dwarf planet. These ...

A team of researchers created videos of simulated flights over Pluto and Charon which include some of the sharpest images and topographic data that New Horizons gathered during its historic flyby on ...