We know about Pluto. But we don’t really know it. That will change on July 14, when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to fly within 8,000 miles of the frozen dwarf. It’s a risky ...

NASA launched the New Horizons probe which would provide never-before-seen images of the dwarf planet, its moons and other objects.

Scientists say they have "decisively" overturned the prevailing theory for how planets in our Solar System formed. The established view is that material violently crashed together to form ever ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers used NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to measure this faint glow. Led by Marc Postman from the Space Telescope Science Institute, the team sought to answer a ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...

Here's a look at the most exciting missions planned for the coming year, which will expand humanity's horizons even ... third quarter of 2025. Space Rider is a reusable spacecraft designed to ...

NASA's record-breaking Parker Solar Probe will smash its own personal bests for proximity to the sun and fastest speed by a human-made object when it whizzes past our star on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24).