The next target for NASA’s New Horizons mission — which made a historic flight past Pluto in July 2015 — apparently bears a colorful resemblance to its famous, main destination. Hubble Space Telescope ...

When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, it transformed our understanding of the distant dwarf planet. What scientists discovered was far more complex than expected: towering ...

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 ...

When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, it revealed a world far more active and complex than scientists expected. Researchers later found evidence that a liquid ocean may exist ...

If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s. Reading time 3 minutes On July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew ...

Pluto and Charon when New Horizons was 69 million miles (111 million kilometers) away. Image: NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI This image of Pluto and its moon Charon was taken on April 15, 2015—just 90 days before ...

This composite "portrait" shows a sliver of Pluto's large moon, Charon, and all four of Pluto's small moons as seen by New Horizons. All the moons are to scale. Charon is by far the largest with a ...

The Nasa spacecraft New Horizons has just flown by Pluto -- the closest a spacecraft has come to the planet. The spacecraft hurtled past Pluto on Tuesday at more than 45,000 kilometres per hour and ...

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 ...

Discovered in 1930 at the Lowell Observatory, Pluto was demoted as a planet in 2006. Some want President Trump to take action ...