NASA's New Horizons mission is scheduled to make history with the first-ever flyby of Pluto on Tuesday morning at 7:49 a.m. Eastern time. Launched in January 2006, the spacecraft has been on ...

NASA's New Horizons probe has lifted the veil on Pluto. On July 14, New Horizons performed the first-ever flyby of the faraway dwarf planet, zooming within 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) of its ...

Pluto’s moon Charon may have expanded when a sub-surface ocean froze, according to NASA.Images recorded by the New Horizons probe’s flyby show “pull apart” faults on Charon’s surface ...

On July 14, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will zip past Pluto at over 30,000 miles per hour, having traveled over 3 billion miles since its launch in 2006. The flyby, which will collect reams of ...

After a nearly decadelong journey, the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past Pluto early Tuesday. The dwarf planet is now the most distant object ever visited by humanity. New Horizons’ closest ...

And Pluto Safari will live on even after the flyby. Braganca said Simulation Curriculum plans to update the app with close encounter pictures and data that will be downlinked over the next 16 months.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (CBS/AP) — We've made it to Pluto by NASA's calculations, the last stop on a planetary tour of the solar system a half-century in the making. The moment of closest approach ...

The last image of Pluto sent back to Earth before New Horizons’ flyby. The photo was taken on Monday, July 13, from a distance of 476,000 miles. Coming Into Focus ...

New Horizons is already well within 1 million miles of Pluto and is rapidly approaching the 31,000 mile per hour flyby that will bring it within 7,800 miles (about 12,500km).

Not only is there a lot to examine in more detail, but we only really know half the story because the New Horizons flyby lasted just a few hours. Since Pluto takes 6.4 Earth days to rotate, ...

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