Six years ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history with the first up-close exploration of the Pluto system – providing breathtaking views and detailed data on Pluto and its largest ...

There are plenty of crazy ideas for missions in the space exploration community. Some are just better funded than others. One of the early pathways to funding the crazy ideas is NASA's Institute for ...

New Horizons brought Pluto into the public eye, but a proposed new mission would give us a closer look. In 1930, Clyde Tombaugh, a 25-year-old amateur astronomer, spied a small, dim object in the ...

The New Horizons flyby of Pluto and its satellites returned a scientific treasure trove of information about these distant and surprisingly complex worlds, showing a vast nitrogen glacier as well as ...

Pluto did in fact both bend and accelerate the trajectory of New Horizons when the spacecraft reconnoitered the dwarf planet in 2015, but only very slightly. There are three reasons the trajectory ...

We Americans are addicted to technology, whether it is sending a probe to Pluto that arrives exactly on time or exploring the ocean floor for plant and animal life we have never seen before. The ...

Pluto's largest moon Charon is captured glowing in "Plutoshine" in this photo taken by New Horizon in 2015. Because sunlight is weak at Pluto's distance, the photo looks pixelated. Credit: ...