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 ...

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

New Horizons is more than 235 million miles beyond Pluto by now, heading toward a 2019 rendezvous with 2014 MU69, another icy object in the broad band of material known as the Kuiper Belt.

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.

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“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 ...

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 ...

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.

Watch Pluto and Charon revolve around each other—and see surface features for the first time—from the New Horizons probe. Photo by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ...

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.

A view of Pluto's heart-shaped Sputnik Planitia as imaged by New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. (Image credit: NASA) Over Pluto's 4.6 billion-year lifetime, scientists estimate this methane ice ...