We know about Pluto. But we don’t really know it. That will change on July 14, when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to fly within 8,000 miles of the frozen dwarf. It’s a risky ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto last July, and it took the most detailed images of the planet that have ever been seen. NASA just released some of the ...

After almost a decade in space, the New Horizons probe's close encounter with Pluto lasted just six days as it hurtled past at nearly 50,000 kilometres an hour. I was lucky enough to witness ...

It means the probe will get to fly 3,500km ... telescope in a search for potential targets that New Horizons could reach after its Pluto encounter. Initially catalogued as (486958) 2014 MU69 ...

"We have a healthy spacecraft," announced Mission Operations ... and 1.5 billion km beyond even the dwarf planet Pluto which New Horizons visited in 2015. It's estimated there are hundreds of ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The New Horizons spacecraft traveled more than 3 billion miles to reach Pluto. Scientists at NASA have used the mission data to create flyovers that are even closer ...

Two NASA spacecraft have teamed up to capture direct images of Uranus. The Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons Pluto ...

New Horizons is a nuclear-powered spacecraft, operating on energy from ... Having launched from Earth in 2006 and photographed dwarf Pluto in 2015—the biggest Kuiper Belt Object—the spacecraft ...

There are practical and sentimental reasons for that—Pluto has tantalizing mysteries to unlock that New Horizons, the most recent spacecraft to visit the system, only added to. To research those ...

Pluto's 'Heart' Was Likely Broken by an Asteroid Long Ago ...

A blue atmosphere, smooth areas, and youthful mountain ranges - this dwarf planet is full of surprises. When NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in July 2015, the images it returned astonished ...

NASA’s New Horizons probe has measured the distance to nearby stars using a technique that’s as old as the ancient mariners, but from a vantage point those mariners could only… Read More The ...