NASA’s New Horizons mission gave humanity its first detailed look at Pluto before continuing billions of miles deeper into ...

Colourful Pluto: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015. Pluto’s surface sports a remarkable range of subtle colors, enhanced in ...

For decades, Pluto remained one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, until July 14, 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to visit it up close, capturing ...

After giving us all a heart attack during the weekend, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft seems to be recovering. On July 4, NASA reported that New Horizons – which is just days away from a historic ...

NASA's New Horizon Probe has gotten its closest ever look at two small moons orbiting Pluto. Coming on the 85th birthday of the discovery of Pluto, NASA Wednesday released two long-exposure images ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pluto's thin, blue haze glows in this image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. Though the dwarf planet is just a faint speck ...

Pluto’s atmosphere may finally be thinning as it moves farther from the sun, with observations suggesting atmospheric pressure has fallen by as much as 16%.

Voyager 1 could have gone to Pluto, but NASA chose a path past Titan instead. That single decision sent the spacecraft away from the last unexplored planet and changed the future of deep-space ...

Pluto did in fact both bend and accelerate the trajectory of New Horizons when the spacecraft reconnoitered the dwarf planet in 2015, but only very slightly. There are three reasons the trajectory ...

A drawing shows the New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in July 2015. After a journey stretching 3 billion miles, NASA's New Horizons probe has awakened from ...