For years, Pluto was viewed as a distant, frozen world whose dramatic landscapes seemed locked in time. A new study published ...

NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Just Woke Up From a Long Nap Ahead of Exploring Beyond Pluto ...

Six years ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history with the first up-close exploration of the Pluto system – providing breathtaking views and detailed data on Pluto and its largest moon, ...

There are plenty of crazy ideas for missions in the space exploration community. Some are just better funded than others. One of the early pathways to funding the crazy ideas is NASA's Institute for ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made headlines traveling past Pluto into the depths of outer space. While there are no polls on Pluto, pollsters have asked Americans for years about space ...

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 ...

The New Horizons flyby of Pluto and its satellites returned a scientific treasure trove of information about these distant and surprisingly complex worlds, showing a vast nitrogen glacier as well as ...