On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons space probe came within 7,800 miles of Pluto, providing NASA scientists with the clearest ...

It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

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

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

At the far reaches of our Solar System lies Pluto, a mysterious world shrouded in shadows and icy terrain. NASA’s latest ...

Pluto is the tiniest planet in our solar system with a diameter of roughly 2,377 kilometers, making it even smaller than our ...

The Senate appropriations committee initially voted in favor of a bill rejecting Trump's NASA budget cuts, but discussions ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), operated by NASA, has uncovered intriguing new details about Charon—Pluto’s largest moon—including the presence of ...

One NASA geologist—he’d rather his name not be attached to such guesswork—thinks that if Pluto’s volatile ices really are evaporating away from the sunlit northern hemisphere, the process ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope uncovers Pluto's mysterious climate system When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, it shattered the image of Pluto as a dull, frozen rock.