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 ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s.

Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in ... the history of astronomy. The ...

In 2006, NASA launched New Horizons to explore Pluto. In 2019, it visited the furthest object in the Solar System we have ...

July's new moon in Leo arrives on Thursday, July 24, and reaches its peak at 11:06 p.m. local time. Here's what the new moon ...

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker This image, taken by NASA's ...

Ted Stryk's work was recognized by the International Astronomical Union, which names bodies in the solar system.

Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says Grundy. Or you could visit a local observatory and use one of their ...

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons space probe came within 7,800 miles of Pluto, providing NASA scientists with the clearest photographs and most detailed measurements they've ever seen of the dwarf ...