An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has captured highly detailed photos of Pluto's surface. The spacecraft spent more than eight hours recording the planet's information ...

NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is gearing up to cross the "termination shock," an exotic boundary in the outer solar system, as early as 2027.

Using NASA New Horizons spacecraft data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists ...

it could damage the spacecraft irreparably.” The weeks leading up to the Pluto encounter will be punctuated with tense analyses of the newest images from New Horizons. As Tombaugh did eight ...

The last time controllers heard from the spacecraft was Monday night, according to plan, and everything looked good. New Horizons already has beamed back the best-ever images of Pluto and big moon ...

Two NASA spacecraft have teamed up to capture direct images of Uranus. The Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons Pluto ...

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The New Horizons was the first mission to the planet Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. BRUCE WEAVER/AFP—Getty Images But Pluto has in many ways only grown in astronomers’ estimations. It is now known ...

It will also be the furthest flyby from Earth ever performed by a spacecraft. Initial searches for a post-Pluto flyby target for New Horizons began in 2011, 4 years before its flyby of Pluto.

LOS ANGELES: Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission on Wednesday released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever ... from the Sun and 1 billion miles (about 1.6 billion km) ...

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft, one of the most advanced ever built, is scheduled to fly by Pluto to take the very first detailed images of the dwarf planet. After nine years and 3 ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first and only flyby of the Pluto system, culminating at the closest approach of that distant world in July 2015. Sailing onward, the probe carried out ...