New Horizons sends back best photos yet as probe closes in on Pluto. New color images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show two very different faces of the mysterious dwarf planet, one with a ...

Discover the incredible story of NASA's New Horizons mission, from its 2006 launch aboard an Atlas V rocket to its historic ...

LAUREL, Md. — Thirty-three minutes after midnight, scientists, engineers and well-wishers here at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory celebrated the moment that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft ...

When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sped by Pluto in 2015, it revealed an incredible world of ice and haze carved by various geological processes — hinting that an ocean may have played a role in the ...

NASA explains Pluto's newly discovered "blue sky" and whether or not potential astronauts could ever witness an Earth-like sunrise. The New Horizons space probe sent back its first color images of ...

LAUREL, Md. — As NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zips past a small, distant icy world early on New Year’s Day, at 12:33 a.m. Eastern time, there will still be a nagging question for people working on ...

Exit strategy Artist’s impression of New Horizons as it flew past Pluto in 2015. (Courtesy: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute) NASA’s New Horizons ...

On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft arrived at Pluto for the first time. The craft flew within 7,700 miles of the planet and is sending back reams of data and the highest resolution ...

"This mission should be able to image the whole of Pluto. It should be phenomenal." When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sped by Pluto in 2015, it revealed an incredible world of ice and haze carved by ...