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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 ...

Discover the incredible story of NASA's New Horizons mission, from its 2006 launch aboard an Atlas V rocket to its historic ...

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 ...

Yesterday afternoon, NASA lost contact with its New Horizons spacecraft for an hour for reasons unknown. This is generally not a good thing when you’re working with technology that’s 4.5 light hours ...

In a span of 30 years — from the first moon rockets in 1959 to the Voyager 2 flyby of Neptune in 1989 — NASA spacecraft introduced the world to close-up views of the bodies in our solar system.

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 ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first and only flyby of the Pluto system, culminating at the closest approach of that distant world in July 2015. Sailing onward, the probe carried out a ...