However, to confirm this thesis, it is necessary to obtain further readings from New Horizons. Scientists continue to ...

Acombination of data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has uncovered a significant ...

For decades, astronomers suspected that Pluto and Charon formed through a process similar to Earth and the Moon. This theory, ...

The New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to fly by the most distant Solar System object ever visited, a large rock in the Kuiper belt known as Ultima Thule, at right around midnight, eastern time.

“The agency decided that it was best to extend operations for New Horizons until the spacecraft exits the Kuiper Belt, which is expected in 2028 through 2029.” After exiting the Kuiper Belt it ...

The moment Alan Stern (L) had confirmation that New Horizons had flown by the Kuiper Belt object "There was the prevailing theory from the late 1960s of violent collisions and a more recent ...

New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...

Until now, the thinking was that Pluto and Charon formed like Earth and our Moon. New research has flipped that script.

Less than 1% of all the data gathered by New Horizons during the flyby has been downlinked to Earth. The slow data-rates from the Kuiper belt mean it will be fully 20 months before all the ...