NASA's New Horizons probe flew by Pluto nearly eight years ago, but the epic encounter is still bearing scientific fruit. New Horizons gave humanity its first up-close looks at Pluto on July 14, 2015, ...

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 ...

NASA’s New Horizons Pluto probe is getting some much-deserved rest. The spacecraft, which performed the first-ever flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015, entered hibernation Monday afternoon (April 10) for ...

Discover the epic 9-year journey of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it races through the solar system to uncover Pluto’s ...

After giving the world an unprecedented close-up of Pluto, Nasa’s New Horizons mission is hurtling towards an altogether more unknown target: MU69.Read more: Mystery planets and strange orbits: what ...

New Horizons is less than one million miles from Pluto after travelling through the Solar System for more than nine years. The latest update from New Horizons shows it is 867,357 miles from Pluto and ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is getting a final “all clear” as it speeds closer to its historic July 14 flyby of Pluto and the dwarf planet’s five moons. After seven weeks of detailed searches for ...

For the first time, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto the primary target of the New Horizons close flyby in mid-July. The ...

Outbound from Pluto, NASA's New Horizons probe woke up from six months of electronic hibernation Tuesday, phoning home to let flight controllers know it's in good health and on course for a New Year's ...

Don't sleep on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. The history-making probe, which famously zoomed past Pluto in July 2015, is closing in on its next flyby target, a frigid chunk of ice and rock about 4 ...

Scientists on NASA’s New Horizons mission have processed images of Sputnik Planum — the western half of Pluto's "heart" — to reveal intricate, never-before-seen patterns in the surface textures of ...

NASA's New Horizons mission has been instrumental in building knowledge about Pluto. The $700 million mission, which launched in 2006, conducted the first-ever flyby of the dwarf planet in 2015. The ...