NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully demonstrated a revolutionary method for deep space navigation, as the probe ...

This time, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made headlines again for completing its first deep space stellar navigation ...

New Horizons gave humanity its first up-close looks at Pluto on July 14, 2015, when the probe zoomed just 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) above the dwarf planet's frigid surface. The mission team ...

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 ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

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 ...

Pluto and its moons 7 photos. NASA's New Horizons probe, now just 10 million miles from Pluto and 14 days from a historic July 14 flyby, is operating in near flawless fashion, making increasingly ...

Pluto and its moons 7 photos. After an exhaustive search for heretofore unseen rings, small moons or other space debris, senior managers concluded Wednesday that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...

Updated map of Pluto showing the far side (the region blow the white line). Areas in black could not be imaged by New Horizons. Image: (NASA/New Horizons/S. A. Stern et al., 2019) ...

NASA woke New Horizons up at least twice a year to check its instruments and practice maneuvers it will make around Pluto. After this wake-up, however, the spacecraft will not be going back to sleep.

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 ...

Pluto is the tiniest planet in our solar system with a diameter of roughly 2,377 kilometers, making it even smaller than our ...