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

At the far reaches of our Solar System lies Pluto, a mysterious world shrouded in shadows and icy terrain. NASA’s latest ...

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

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

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled so far from Earth that the relative position of the stars is beginning to shift — a fact that could help future spacecraft navigate the galaxy on their own.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has successfully conducted the first-ever deep space stellar navigation test, while traversing the Kuiper Belt.

“This pioneering interstellar navigation demonstration and its accompanying publication show that a deep-space mission can use its onboard imaging system to find its way among the stars,” added Alan ...

Sedna will reach its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, providing a remarkable space-faring opportunity that won’t come ...

More than $10 billion in funds are included in Trump’s tax and spending bill for NASA programs previously targeted by the ...

In the frozen outskirts of the solar system, a reddish dwarf planet orbits in silence. Known as Sedna, it is so distant that ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

At the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the 88-Inch Cyclotron is a powerful ...