NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will be able to keep exploring its exotic environs for at least another five years. The agency announced on Friday (Sept. 29) that it will keep New Horizons' lights on ...

After teasing an “amazing” announcement yesterday, NASA officially declared today that the New Horizons probe has detected trace amounts of exposed water ice on the surface of Pluto during its recent ...

A NASA parallax experiment involving New Horizons shows the probe now sees some stars in slightly different positions than we do on Earth, revealing just how far the spacecraft is from home. You can ...

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 ...

NASA's New Horizons probe was able to help measure the distance between two stars and our home system thanks to its distant location. The probe's images of the stars were compared with images of those ...

The future of NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is uncertain following debates at NASA over how best to use the spacecraft. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very different ...

The New Horizons spacecraft that studied Pluto and Kuiper belt object Arrokoth continues its pioneering exploration of the Kuiper belt. However, that might soon end if NASA doesn't change course. The ...

NASA’s New Horizons mission is providing scientists with fresh insight into how planets form. The mission is also boosting scientific knowledge about the formation of planetesimals, described by NASA ...

Black holes capture the imagination of scientists and space enthusiasts because they represent the most extreme gravitational ...

The new extended mission for New Horizons keeps open the option of another Kuiper Belt object flyby if a suitable one is discovered. Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI WASHINGTON — NASA has agreed to extend ...