It was one of the most ambitious missions for NASA since the turn of the century, with photos reshaping what scientists know ...

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.

NASA's leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for the agency, which is already bracing for potentially severe funding ...

The unexpected discovery of the real-life celestial body Pluto in No Man's Sky by one explorer astonishes and impresses the player community.

The experimental director Jem Cohen’s latest is an uncategorizable film about astronomers and humanity and love and the stars ...

Aeolian bedforms are common on Earth and across the solar system, including on Mars, Venus, Pluto, the Saturn moon Titan, the Neptune moon Triton, and Comet 67P. These geological features, among the ...

Six months after several devastating wildfires swept through Los Angeles County, debris removal has entered the home- stretch ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The surface was surprisinglyyoung, suggesting that Pluto is still active beneath its crust. Later, New Horizons journeyed ...

Newly released imagery from NASA shows the Sun's corona in stunning detail after the Parker Solar probe performed its closest ...

Jupiter has always been a captivating enigma in our solar system, with its 79 moons, violent storms, and mesmerizing auroras. For decades, scientists have tried to uncover the secrets of this gas ...