It has taken nearly a decade and 3 billion miles to get there, but scientists are about to get their first look at Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft is closing fast on the tiny world once thought to ...

Space probe isn't done after historic Pluto flyby. — -- New Horizons conserved energy by taking naps on its 3 billion mile journey to Pluto but the spacecraft isn't done yet and may have enough ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – We've made it to Pluto by NASA's calculations, the last stop on a planetary tour of the solar system a half-century in the making. The moment of closest approach for the New ...

The space probe began making discoveries even before today's flyby. — -- Three billion miles and nearly ten years of travel led up to the moment NASA's New Horizons probe zoomed past Pluto today, ...

The first age of solar system exploration is in the books. NASA's New Horizons probe flew by Pluto this morning (July 14), capturing history's first up-close looks at the far-flung world — if all went ...

RENO, Nev. (MyNews4.com & KRNV) -- NASA is set to make history Tuesday. "NASA and our country has been the first to take pictures of every planet surface with a probe and this is no exception," said ...

Pluto has been added to the University of Arizona’s scale-model walking tour of the solar system, but will that be enough to mend the dwarf planet’s broken heart? Not likely, according to a recent ...

A huge heart-shaped feature on the surface of Pluto has intrigued astronomers since NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured it in a 2015 image. Now, researchers think they have solved the mystery of ...

Four and a half hours. That’s all the time it took for NASA’s New Horizons probe to send a signal across the void on 14 July, sharing news of its successful rendezvous with Pluto. And that’s not the ...