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NASA's deep space probe 'New Horizons' has discovered five big things about the little-understood Pluto. What are they?

If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s. Reading time 3 minutes On July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew ...

If confirmed, the rock would become just the second world past Neptune in our solar system to host an atmosphere.

It may look a little blurry, but the bright orange-tinted circle in the middle of the photo above is the first color image of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon. The image was taken by the Ralph color ...

Yesterday afternoon, NASA lost contact with its New Horizons spacecraft for an hour for reasons unknown. This is generally not a good thing when you’re working with technology that’s 4.5 light hours ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first and only flyby of the Pluto system, culminating at the closest approach of that distant world in July 2015. Sailing onward, the probe carried out a ...