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

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made history by flying past Pluto, sending back groundbreaking data that would change our ...

NASA has released the latest images from New Horizons’ historic Pluto flyby, which reveal the dwarf planet’s stunning range of surface features.

Image: Mosaic of high-resolution images of Pluto, sent back from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft from Sept. 5 to 7, 2015. The image is dominated by the informally-named icy plain Sputnik Planum ...

NASA‘s New Horizons probe achieved its closest approach to Pluto on Tuesday morning, flying just 7,800 miles from the dwarf planet. Now NASA is sharing the first high-resolution images from the ...

NASA’s successful mission to snap the first ever detailed photos of Pluto prompted the space agency to highlight similar past accomplishments. The New Horizons spacecraft journeyed 3 billion ...

Pluto is the gift that keeps on giving as more photos from the distant dwarf planet continue to roll in from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. The first hi-res color shot of the planet, a strange ...

NASA released the photos today (Feb. 4), on the birthday of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930. (Tombaugh died in 1997 at age 90.) [ Photos from NASA's New Horizons ...

NASA has released the first images taken during New Horizons’ historic flyby of dwarf planet Pluto. “We have got a whole bunch of high-resolution observations safely on the spacecraft,” said ...

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