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 ...

As it hurtles out of our solar system, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is now so far from Earth that the stars in the Milky Way appear in markedly different positions compared with our own view.

As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft traveled through the Kuiper Belt at a distance of more than 5.5 billion miles from Earth, an international team of astronomers used the far-flung probe to conduct an ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This spectrograph map, generated from data collected by NASA's New Horizons probe, depicts the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Planetary scientist Kelsi Singer was an undergraduate in 2006 when a spunky spacecraft launched with an ambitious goal: to fly by Pluto. It would take nearly a decade for the New Horizons probe to ...

The New Horizons spacecraft sends back its sensational snapshots of Jupiter, and its volcanic moon Io, before the mission's close encounter with Pluto (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via ...

Exit strategy Artist’s impression of New Horizons as it flew past Pluto in 2015. (Courtesy: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute) NASA’s New Horizons ...

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 ...