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 ...

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

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

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

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

The New Horizons station is the first man-made object to reach Pluto. Till now, an incredibly distant and barely seen by ...

Of the 50 gigabits New Horizons collected during its nine-day flyby of Pluto, less than 2 percent has made it back to Earth. “I’m a little biased, but I think the solar system saved the best ...

Pluto is the largest object known to exist in the Kuiper Belt, but MU69 is much smaller and more representative of the trillions of other KBOs, Kelsi Singer of the New Horizons science team told ...

Just 1 to 2 percent of science from probe has been sent back to Earth. — -- New Horizons captured a stunning image that was released today showing frozen plains in Pluto's heart-shaped ...

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