Despite a recent technical glitch, NASA's big Pluto adventure is still on. That's right, more than a decade after the New Horizon spacecraft was approved to go to the only unexplored planet in the ...

Pluto may have been demoted to non-planet status, but it still commands a court of five moons, as is fitting for the king of ...

More than nine years after its launch, a U.S. spacecraft sailed past Pluto on Tuesday, capping a 3 billion mile (4.88 billion km) journey to the solar system’s farthest reaches, NASA said. The craft ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Pluto is considered a planetary oddball -- a tiny, frozen world so unlike the other planets that some astronomers doubt whether it even deserves to be called a planet.

RED LODGE — Paul Henry wondered for 16 years if a spacecraft he helped design would ever leave Earth. Two weeks ago, Henry watched as the Pluto-bound New Horizons hurtled out of sight over Cape ...

On January 19, 2006, NASA launched a spacecraft to Pluto! New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano, and it became the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto. It launched from Cape ...

The voyage of NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft through the Jupiter system earlier this year provided a bird’s-eye view of a dynamic planet that has changed since the last close-up looks by ...

Hygiene Elementary students on Wednesday watched as Principal Renee Collier, with a dramatic flair and drum rolls, opened a ...