New Horizons blasted off for its long haul mission on Jan. 19, 2006, atop an Atlas V rocket, back when Pluto still enjoyed status as a planet. Scientists later that year voted to demote Pluto to a ...

With new data and images streaming from New Horizons showing that Pluto is larger than previously thought, many are saying it's time to restore the ninth planet to its classification as a planet.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which launched in 2006, will soon give scientists their first close-up look at the dwarf planet Pluto. By Deborah Netburn Staff Writer Jan. 25, 2015 6 AM PT ...

New Horizons then traveled onward to Pluto, where it finally made its close flyby in July 2015, following a three-billion-mile journey lasting almost ten years.

At the far reaches of our Solar System lies Pluto, a mysterious world shrouded in shadows and icy terrain. NASA’s latest ...

New Horizons gave humanity its first up-close looks at Pluto on July 14, 2015, when the probe zoomed just 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) above the dwarf planet's frigid surface. The mission team ...

Don't sleep on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. The history-making probe, which famously zoomed past Pluto in July 2015, is closing in on its next flyby target, a frigid chunk of ice and rock about ...

Pluto-bound New Horizons Provides New Look At Jupiter System. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 26, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 05 / 070501144209.htm ...

The Pluto system is tipped on its side, like a target facing the sun. New Horizons did not carry enough fuel to go into orbit around Pluto, so it had only one chance to study the dwarf planet up ...

When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto five years ago this week, it captured detailed views of the mysterious icy dwarf planet on the edge of our solar system.

Pluto is the tiniest planet in our solar system with a diameter of roughly 2,377 kilometers, making it even smaller than our ...

While New Horizons was performing its distant observations, Hubble, in low-Earth orbit around our home planet, was only 1.7 billion miles (2.7 billion km) away from Uranus.