CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It’s official: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has gotten humanity’s first up-close look at Pluto. The spacecraft sent word of its triumph Tuesday across 3 billion miles to ...

In 2015, after flying for 9 years and covering nearly 5 billion kilometers, the New Horizons spacecraft successfully flew ...

For decades, Pluto remained one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, until July 14, 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to visit it up close, capturing ...

(MEDIA GENERAL) – As NASA spacecraft New Horizons continues its way through space, scientists and science enthusiasts have taken to social media to express their feelings on Tuesday’s historic Pluto ...

Clyde Tombaugh noticed a speck of light that was Pluto in 1930. — -- Clyde Tombaugh is finally getting to visit the speck of light he spotted at the edge of the solar system in 1930. New Horizons ...

A few short hours after the New Horizons spacecraft zooms by Pluto at 31,000 mph Tuesday morning, it will turn, point its radio toward Earth and -- hopefully -- check in to say everything went OK.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- NASA just received a signal back from New Horizons, confirming a successful first flyby of Pluto. Euphoria broke out at NASA as Pluto is now the most distant object reached by ...

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 ...

Space probe isn't done after historic Pluto flyby. — -- New Horizons conserved energy by taking naps on its 3 billion mile journey to Pluto but the spacecraft isn't done yet and may have enough ...

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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft snapped the first high-resolution photographs of Pluto and its moons this week. The images reveal the planetary system in unprecedented detail — highlighting mountain ...