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 ...

"We've just accomplished the most distant flyby." This first radio message ... and 1.5 billion km beyond even the dwarf planet Pluto which New Horizons visited in 2015. It's estimated there ...

It is now three years since New Horizons made its remarkable flyby of dwarf planet Pluto. That was a technical tour de force and acquiring observations at Ultima will be just as tricky.

The flyby of New Horizons nine years later revealed Pluto to be geologically active and complex, with nitrogen-ice plains, mountain ranges, dunes and ice volcanoes. It was shown to have its own ...

As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto's ...

The team used details of Uranus' clouds collected using Hubble to verify what the New Horizons spacecraft — launched in 2006 ...

Ever since NASA's New Horizons sent back the first ... basin measuring 750 by 1,250 miles near Pluto's equator that was discovered during the flyby. Although the dwarf planet is covered in an ...

“The flyby by the space probe is a milestone in our knowledge of the so-called third zone of the Solar system,” says Giuliatti Winter. “I think the data sent by the New Horizons probe will bring ...

Trapped gas could be tainting the north pole of Pluto’s moon Charon dark red. After last summer’s Pluto flyby, the New Horizons spacecraft started sending data back to Earth – at 2 kilobits ...