University of Maryland astronomers Silvia Protopapa and Douglas Hamilton are among the authors of the first published paper from the New Horizons flyby, which appears in the Oct. 16, 2015, issue ...

It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

Spectacular new photos snapped by NASA's New Horizons space probe reveal flowing ices and a hazy atmosphere. Skip to main content Skip to main menu Skip to search Skip to footer.

New Horizons is still 70-million miles (113-million km) from Pluto, but the spacecraft starting to see some surface features on the dwarf planet, including a possible ice cap at its pole.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is the gift that keeps on giving. After completing a historic flyby of Pluto on July 14, the spacecraft continues to provide scientists with never-before-seen views ...

Previously in New Horizons images, we've seen lots of variations of the Pluto-Charon orbital dance. What we haven't seen, until now, is surface details of Pluto.

Launched in January 2006 on a 3-billion-mile journey to Pluto, New Horizons "phoned home" after its Pluto flyby, indicating that it had successfully navigated just 7,700 miles from the dwarf planet.

“We can only imagine what surprises will be revealed when New Horizons passes approximately 7,800 miles (12,500km) above Pluto’s surface this summer,” said Hal Weaver, the mission’s ...

Here is New Horizons' newest image of Pluto, sent from the planet yesterday and released early this morning.Each pixel represents 4 kilometers, and the image is 1000 times the resolution of ...

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It was one of the most ambitious missions for NASA since the turn of the century, with photos reshaping what scientists know ...