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 ...

After one space aficionado created a gorgeous timelapse video a few weeks ago that showed us NASA’s entire New Horizons’ Pluto mission fly by in 16 seconds, the space agency posted an actual ...

Before the flyby, says Owen, the time of New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto could not be predicted to better than a few hundred seconds. Optical navigation pictures in the last week before ...

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

Related: NASA may shift New Horizons Pluto probe to sun-studying mission ... on an extended mission that centered on a flyby of another Kuiper Belt object (KBO) — the 21-mile-wide (34 kilometers ...

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

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

When the International Astronomical Union announced in 2006 that Pluto was being demoted from its status as the Sun’s ninth ...

Images and data have been flowing in since NASA's epic New Horizons Pluto flyby on Tuesday morning, and the latest image released shows an exaggerated color map of Pluto and its moon Charon.

Two days after briefly losing communication with the New Horizons spacecraft as it sped toward the dwarf planet Pluto, the probe’s operators say they understand the root cause of what happened ...

The Subaru Telescope is a large optical-infrared telescope located on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi and operated by the National ...

The New Horizons spacecraft is only hours away from its closest approach to Pluto. It’s hoped the brief encounter will help answer many questions about the oddball member of our solar system.