Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

NASA’s New Horizons made history by revealing the unseen face of Pluto, for centuries this icy world remained a mystery ...

Last month, Stern and other New Horizons scientists signed onto a white paper calling for NASA to fund an in-depth study of potential Pluto orbiter missions. That grass-roots approach mirrors how ...

Of the 50 gigabits New Horizons collected during its nine-day flyby of Pluto, less than 2 percent has made it back to Earth. “I’m a little biased, but I think the solar system saved the best ...

When New Horizons zipped past Pluto on July 14, 2015, the NASA spacecraft was only able to observe one side of the dwarf planet. Scientists have now reviewed data collected by New Horizons during ...

In Pluto’s shadow. New Horizons watched the sun set and rise behind Pluto in a momentary eclipse around 8:51 a.m., using sunlight and radio signals from Earth to examine Pluto’s atmosphere.

New Horizons’ long journey to Pluto culminated Tuesday morning, when the NASA spacecraft went screaming past the dwarf planet at 30,800 mph. But the mission is far from over.

The spacecraft New Horizons sped past Pluto and its moons on July 14, 2015, gathering data from seven onboard instruments. Shortly thereafter, it began offloading that data in a stream of digital bits ...

For 9-1/2 years, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sped through space at more than 30,000 mph on a one-way trip to Pluto. But when it finally gets to its distant destination, it has no plans to ...

New Horizons makes it to Pluto, sees craters and mountains. The scientific case for closely studying MU69 is that it’s different from Pluto, much smaller, a “cold, ...

It was one of the most ambitious missions for NASA since the turn of the century, with photos reshaping what scientists know ...