Pluto may have been downgraded from full-planet status, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hold a special place in scientist's ...

Meanwhile, the New Horizons spacecraft has basic optics and is now about 6.5 billion miles distant (twice as far from the sun as Pluto). So they had drastically different viewpoints on the giant ...

The pictures, taken by the New Horizons probe on 1 January, show the apparently bulbous body to be quite flat. This interpretation is evident from the data acquired by the Nasa spacecraft when it ...

Two NASA spacecraft have teamed up to capture direct images of Uranus. The Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons Pluto ...

Mapping Pluto Broken Heart | This image was taken by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on the morning ...

The American space agency is waiting for a signal from its New Horizons probe to confirm that it has made a successful flyby of Ultima Thule. The craft should have hurtled by the 30km-wide icy ...

2024 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very ...

“The agency decided that it was best to extend operations for New Horizons until the spacecraft exits the Kuiper Belt, which is expected in 2028 through 2029.” After exiting the Kuiper Belt it ...

This union was not violent. The two bodies came together at about walking speed, in a meetup more akin to a spacecraft docking than to a collision, said Jeff Moore, leader of New Horizons' geology and ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (left) and NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft (right) image the planet Uranus. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

Though technically not a planet, it has as rich geology as any of its planetary siblings in the solar system A color-enhanced photo of Pluto that was captured by the New Horizons spacecraft in ...