There's a broad consensus in the scientific community that a follow-up mission to Pluto should be an orbiter, and not a ...

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Before the Pluto flyby, the New Horizons mission had been billed as this generation’s version of Voyager. It would be the first time many of us would get to see a familiar world come into focus.

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

Beyond Pluto, New Horizons’ Next Target May Have a Moon. The probe’s 2019 encounter with the icy object 2014 MU69 could reveal multiple lunar ... the world's largest airborne observatory. ...

Out beyond Pluto, a large, massive world has been found that may be our Solar System's newest dwarf planet. But its large eccentricity might mean something more.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. What New Horizons discovered surprised us all. Rather than a cold inert world, we found Pluto has a thin atmosphere, that it ...

Space Beyond Pluto: New Horizons probe aims for another unseen world. As Earthlings gawp at the dwarf planet, NASA’s plucky probe is gearing up for one last mission: a close encounter that could ...

The New Horizons team has selected an object named 2014 MU69, which lies roughly 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto, as the next target for up-close study by the spacecraft ...

As NASA's New Horizons probe speeds toward a possible encounter with an object beyond the orbit of Pluto, the spacecraft has made observations of another icy body located in the outer region of ...

Discovered in 1930, we always knew Pluto to be a cold and distant world, orbiting the Sun amongst a ring of frigid objects beyond Neptune known as the Kuiper Belt.

The Associated Press reported that the New Horizons spacecraft explored an icy world beyond Pluto that is shaped like a peanut or bowling pin. Scientists learned of the successful mission Tuesday ...