The big question is: what exactly did New Horizons spot and discover as it flew through the Pluto System? Today, in the space world, let’s uncover Pluto’s secrets. Pluto was the last of the “classic” ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL -- Come Tuesday, Clyde Tombaugh will pass within 7,800 miles of the icy world he discovered 85 years ago. His ashes are flying on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on humanity's first ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spacecraft is located 5 degrees below the Pleiades star. As the month wears on, it travels ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

AIKEN – Savannah River Site’s HB Line and H Canyon facilities processed and produced plutonium (Pu)-238 oxide used to power the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s New Horizons space probe ...

NASA launched the New Horizons spacecraft nine and a half years go, and last night — three billion miles later — pictures and other data began coming back from Pluto, the most distant object ever ...

Tuesday, July 14, 2015 is a benchmark in the history of humankind’s space exploration, set apart as the day NASA's New Horizon spacecraft has just completed a flyby passed Pluto, the last ...

As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft traveled through the Kuiper Belt at a distance of 438 million miles from Earth, an international team of astronomers used the far-flung probe to conduct an ...