After a near decade-long journey, an unmanned NASA spacecraft will make a close shave past Pluto on Tuesday, offering scientists a detailed glimpse of the dwarf planet’s surface for the first time.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — In a day of both jubilation and tension, scientists anxiously waited Tuesday for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft to send word across 3 billion miles and confirm it got ...

CLEVELAND - Following released images of Pluto taken during the New Horizons flyby, NASA today released an animation of the distant planetoid's surface. The animation is based on images that were then ...

For decades, scientists and the general public have argued over the astronomical status of beloved dwarf planet Pluto. In the latest salvo, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said that he was “very ...

It's been 20 years since Pluto was declassified as the ninth planet in our solar system, and many people wish it had never lost its status. A recent comment from NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman ...

A groundbreaking mission that explored Pluto and distant solar system objects in unprecedented detail has awakened from its longest sleep ever — and it’s 5.9 billion miles from Earth.NASA’s New ...