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The discovery of another moon around Pluto is exciting news for planetary science, but it's also likely causing some anxiety for the team in charge of New Horizons, a spacecraft set to be the first ...

NASA’sNew Horizons spacecraft has delivered extraordinary video footage showing towering ice mountains on Pluto’s moon Nix.

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Pluto was supposed to be a frozen, lifeless relic drifting at the edge of the solar system. But when NASA’s New Horizons probe finally arrived, it found something far stranger. Beneath the nitrogen ...

If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s. Reading time 3 minutes On July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- NASA just received a signal back from New Horizons, confirming a successful first flyby of Pluto. Euphoria broke out at NASA as Pluto is now the most distant object reached by ...

For decades, Pluto remained one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, until July 14, 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to visit it up close, capturing ...

Finally, a family portrait of Pluto is beginning to emerge! For the first time ever, astronomers have captured two never-before-photographed moons orbiting Pluto. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft just took its first picture of Pluto's moon Charon. Not bad, not bad at all, especially considering the photo was snapped from 550 million miles away. The probe made a ...