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 spacecraft made history by flying past Pluto, sending back groundbreaking data that would change our ...

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

New Horizons will spend most of 2015 collecting data from Pluto, its moons and its local area. Scientists anticipate that it will take until the fall of 2016for the spacecraft to deliver its trove ...

New Horizons has so far provided the first true measurements of some of Pluto’s smaller moons, Nix and Hydra. But the measurements of Styx and Kerberos are still onboard the spacecraft.

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 ...

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 ...

The groundbreaking New Horizons mission blazed past Pluto in 2015, transforming our view of the dwarf planet from just a speck to a complex world with changing geology, ice volcanoes, jagged ...

Pluto is the largest object known to exist in the Kuiper Belt, but MU69 is much smaller and more representative of the trillions of other KBOs, Kelsi Singer of the New Horizons science team told ...

Pluto is so far from the sun that power production with solar cells is impractical, so New Horizons uses a decaying radioisotope as a battery to produce about 200 watts of electrical power for the ...

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