NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the critical mission of observing the surfaces of outer Solar System ...

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

According to the experts, the mysterious objects could be essential for a better understanding of the formation of the solar ...

Survey observations using the Subaru Telescope's ultra-widefield prime focus camera have revealed that there may be a ...

An artist’s impression of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft against the backdrop of deep space. More than 5.4 billion miles (7.3 billion kilometers) from Earth, New Horizons is traversing a region of the ...

Billions of years ago, a massive asteroid struck Ganymede, the largest moon orbiting Jupiter, shifting it on its axis, new ...

To put the distance into perspective, know that the New Horizons spacecraft heading into deeper space after conducting a flyby of Pluto in 2015 is currently at nearly 60 astronomical units from the ...

He also knew that findings from the New Horizons space probe supported the idea the one-time planet Pluto had also shifted on its rotational axis in the past. The impact of a large asteroid ...

Now, scientists have measured the true darkness of the Universe, by taking the most precise measurements yet of the faint ...