Fastest spacecraft ever launched at 36,373 miles per hour (when it left Earth orbit)? Check. First to explore Pluto? Already done. First to ...

What was. What is. And what’s coming. NASA recently released a four-minute video touching on some of the discoveries already made by the ...

New Horizons, the fastest spacecraft ever launched, delivered breathtaking images two years ago when it flew just 7,800 miles above Pluto’s surface. The ...

Should Pluto be a planet? Does it matter? One group of NASA scientists are emphatic. Yes on both. One month after a group ...

Dwarf planets, exoplanets, regular planets, moons. Why can’t we just have planets? NASA scientists led by Alan Stern, the principal investigator for NASA’s ...

It only took more than a year, but the New Horizons spacecraft has sent the last slivers of data back home. A portion ...

A layered, hazy atmosphere. Blue skies. And clouds? New Horizons scientists are discussing the potential of clouds in Pluto’s skies this week at ...

Every second that goes by, New Horizons is 9 miles closer to its next target – 2014 MU69. New Hubble Space Telescope data ...

New Horizons blew me away with the first images of Pluto. But there was more to the Pluto system than just a stunning ...

A year ago, our understanding of a former planet was changed forever. Pluto wasn’t just a drab rock in the furthest reaches of ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft stunned the world in 2015 when it beamed back the first high-resolution images of Pluto’s surface. The planet most ...

The far-reaches of our solar system is far from boring. NASA’s New Horizons probe proved that. When New Horizons approached the dwarf planet ...