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

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

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

Pluto is the tiniest planet in our solar system with a diameter of roughly 2,377 kilometers, making it even smaller than our moon. Check out these 7 rare photos of Pluto clicked by NASA.

Planned moon and Mars missions require timely communications and navigation systems, which is prompting NASA officials to ...

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 ...

NASA faces a proposed $6 billion agency-wide funding cut by the Trump administration, including a 47% reduction of science ...

On July 14, 2015, a spacecraft flew by Pluto for the first time! NASA's New Horizons spacecraft spent 9.5 years making the ...

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

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

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

NASA's leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for the agency, which is already bracing for potentially severe funding ...