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 ...

Rise and shine, New Horizons. You've got a job to do. NASA's intrepid spacecraft, which made its close flyby of Pluto in July 2015, just woke up from a planned nearly six-month hibernation in ...

Two NASA spacecraft have teamed up to capture direct images of Uranus. The Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons Pluto probe formed a cool tag team to investigate the mysterious seventh ...

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.

an unmanned Nasa spacecraft will make a close shave past Pluto today, offering scientists a detailed glimpse of the dwarf planet’s surface for the first time. New Horizons is about the size of a ...

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 ...

Sargent’s Madame X Is More Than Ready for Her Close-Up Bestie Flopped the Linguistic Vibe Check, No Cap We need a pick-me-up. Amid the vandalizing of Palmyra, the imminent extinction of the ...

One Pluto year equals 248 Earth years. At 1473 miles in diameter—about half the width of the United States—Pluto is the ...

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After the spacecraft's primary objectives at Pluto were completed, scientists used Alice to make broader and more frequent surveys of Lyman-alpha emissions as New Horizons traveled farther from ...

After almost a decade in space, the New Horizons probe's close encounter with Pluto lasted just six days as it hurtled past at nearly 50,000 kilometres an hour. I was lucky enough to witness ...

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 ...