Four small suitcase-sized spacecraft, designed and built by Southwest Research Institute, have made a final Earth-side pit ...

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

NASA launched a spacecraft to Pluto! New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano, and it became the first ...

On this date, Jan. 19, 2006, the first probe ever destined to visit Pluto, its moons and other Kuiper belt objects launched from Launch Complex 41 at what is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...

Pluto seemed hopelessly cold and distant until 2015, when NASA’s New Horizons space probe beamed back images of the giant heart-shaped mark that dominates the dwarf planet’s surface.

Space tourism is on the horizon, and will become increasingly ... For £23,768 (R560,000), this four-night course includes virtual reality spacecraft simulations and a ride aboard a microgravity ...

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

Charon is made mostly of water ice. When the New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto and Charon in 2015, it imaged only one side of Charon. It found that Charon's north polar region, called Mordor ...

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 ...