NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is gearing up to cross the "termination shock," an exotic boundary in the outer solar system, ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...

Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! He called this hypothetical world "Planet X." "In some ways, Pluto's more of a planet than some of the ...

It is located in the distant Kuiper Belt," the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said. Pluto was discovered ... This "blinking" between images allowed the astronomer to note tiny ...

Feb. 18 marks the 95th anniversary of the discovery of our outermost planet-not-planet. Here's what to know about the short ...

"The data from the termination shock encounter will be a treasure trove for space physicists worldwide ... conducted the first and only flyby of the Pluto system, culminating at the closest ...

open image in gallery Analysis of data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has helped shed light on the ancient surfaces of trans-Neptunian objects like Pluto. Scientists confirmed what they ...