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 ...

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

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons space probe came within 7,800 miles of Pluto, providing NASA scientists with the clearest ...

On July 14, 2015, a spacecraft flew by Pluto for the first time! NASA's New Horizons spacecraft spent 9.5 years making the ...

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

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been used to demonstrate simple interstellar navigation by measuring the parallax of just ...

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker This image, taken by NASA's ...

NASA's iconic New Horizons probe, which explored Pluto and the outer solar system, faces potential shutdown due to proposed budget cuts by the White House.

After more than nine years and 3 billion miles of traveling, NASA's New Horizons probe closes in for its history-making close encounter with Pluto. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal ...

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

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