July's new moon in Leo arrives on Thursday, July 24, and reaches its peak at 11:06 p.m. local time. Here's what the new moon ...

NASA launched New Horizons to explore Pluto. In 2019, it visited the furthest object in the Solar System we have seen up ...

Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been used to demonstrate simple interstellar navigation by measuring the parallax of just two stars. An international team was able to determine the location and ...

This image, taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015, is the most accurate natural color image of Pluto. This ...

On July 14, 2015, a spacecraft flew by Pluto for the first time! NASA's New Horizons spacecraft spent 9.5 years making the ...

Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in ... the history of astronomy. The ...

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons space probe came within 7,800 miles of Pluto, providing NASA scientists with the clearest photographs and most detailed measurements they've ever seen of the dwarf ...

Dan Weedman was a senior official at NASA and the National Science Foundation from 1992-2002, including serving as the head ...

It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

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