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 ...

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 ...

New Horizons' flyby of Pluto is an extraordinarily complex undertaking, one that requires split-second timing as the spacecraft autonomously carries out hundreds of observations while streaking ...

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 ...

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.

New Horizons’ nine-day flyby sequence culminated with its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, when it followed a trajectory carefully plotted by Yanping Guo, a mission design specialist ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is already getting good looks at Pluto, and will return history's first up-close photos of the dwarf planet during a July 14 flyby. [New Horizons' Pluto Flyby ...