We know about Pluto. But we don’t really know it. That will change on July 14, when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to fly within 8,000 miles of the frozen dwarf. It’s a risky ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which flew by Pluto in 2015, has offered the best-yet estimates of how dark deep space truly ...

NASA's New Horizons team has identified a new group of distant Kuiper Belt objects using the Subaru Telescope, revealing that ...

Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep ...

Such images helped give the teams an estimate of the direction from the spacecraft to Pluto. Before the flyby, we didn't know the distance from the Sun to Pluto more accurately than a few thousand ...

The 11 objects discovered could be a new class of objects orbiting in a “ring” in the distant reaches of the solar system.

A brand-new group of frozen objects, orbiting the sun out beyond the distant Kuiper Belt, has been spotted by the Subaru ...

Engineers have mitigated an issue with Voyager 1’s thrusters, enabling the mission to stay in touch with mission controllers ...

Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there. We need a pick-me-up. Amid the vandalizing of Palmyra, the imminent extinction of the northern white rhino, the disarray ...

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New Horizons, however, zoomed past Pluto in July 2015 on its one-way trek ... In the summer of 2023, the spacecraft scanned its surroundings using its onboard camera, gathering snapshots of ...