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

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

NASA’s New Horizons probe, which hurtled past Pluto in 2015, demonstrates that it can sail through interstellar space using ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully demonstrated a revolutionary method for deep space navigation, as the probe ...

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

NASA’s New Horizons successfully used stellar parallax from deep space to pinpoint its location, pioneering a new method of ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has a new destination: a 30-mile-wide chunk of ice. By Joseph Stromberg. Inside New Horizons: What it’s like to conduct a 9-year mission for a 3-minute flyby.

That is far enough that the apparent position in the sky of Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359 has shifted from the spacecraft's ...

New Horizons launched in January 2006, on a mission to provide the first-ever up-close looks at Pluto, the Kuiper Belt's most famous resident.The spacecraft delivered, zooming past the dwarf ...

The New Horizons spacecraft, seen in this artist's illustration, is cruising toward the edge of the solar system. NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter ...

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

The future of New Horizons has been in doubt after NASA elected to extend the mission, part of NASA’s planetary science division, only through 2024, proposing to then transfer it to NASA’s ...