It's showtime for Pluto. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled 3 billion miles and is nearing the end of its nine-year journey to Pluto. Sunday, it begins photographing the mysterious, ...

On January 19, 2006, NASA launched a spacecraft to Pluto! New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano, and ...

LAUREL, Md. — Thirty-three minutes after midnight, scientists, engineers and well-wishers here at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory celebrated the moment that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft ...

Decades-old pictures of Pluto’s heart are breaking the Internet again. University of Oxford's Dr Carly Howett explains the science behind the New Horizons mission and that famous 5-billion-kilometre ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft pulled off the most distant exploration of another world Tuesday, skimming past a tiny, icy object 4 billion miles from Earth that looks to be shaped like a bowling pin.

The discovery of another moon around Pluto is exciting news for planetary science, but it's also likely causing some anxiety for the team in charge of New Horizons, a spacecraft set to be the first ...

As New Horizons passed Pluto in July 2015, did the dwarf planet alter the probe's trajectory? Douglas Kaupa Council Bluffs, Iowa Pluto did in fact both bend and accelerate the trajectory of New ...

It may look a little blurry, but the bright orange-tinted circle in the middle of the photo above is the first color image of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon. The image was taken by the Ralph color ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA, USA, September 18, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- The National Space Society recently joined forces with the Beyond Earth Institute and the ...

Humanity's understanding of the solar system has evolved dramatically following the advent of spaceflight. Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ...