It's showtime for Pluto. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled 3 billion miles and is nearing the end of its nine-year journey to Pluto. Sunday, it begins photographing the mysterious, ...

When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, it transformed our understanding of the distant dwarf planet. What scientists discovered was far more complex than expected: towering ...

July 14 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1789, French peasants stormed the Bastille prison in Paris, beginning the French Revolution. The event is commemorated as "Bastille Day," a national holiday ...

Anyone who’s passionate about astronomy and outer space knows that few things can compare to the grandeur and beauty of deep space photography, and on that front, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is ...

The discovery of another moon around Pluto is exciting news for planetary science, but it's also likely causing some anxiety for the team in charge of New Horizons, a spacecraft set to be the first ...

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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 ...

Pluto did in fact both bend and accelerate the trajectory of New Horizons when the spacecraft reconnoitered the dwarf planet in 2015, but only very slightly. There are three reasons the trajectory ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the New Horizons science team react to seeing the spacecraft's last and sharpest image of Pluto before closest approach ...