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

After more than nine years and three billion miles, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft whizzed past Pluto this morning, making its closest approach to the distant dwarf planet at 7:49 a.m. EDT. The images ...

One expert said they were not aware of any pictures showing all the planets in the same photo. He added that until 2006 Pluto would be considered a planet but not be possible to capture in this way.

The probe launched toward Pluto and the asteroid belt at the edge our solar system in 2006. Four images from New Horizons were combined with color data from the spacecraft to create this enhanced ...

Neptune as seen from the Very Large Telescope. ESO/P. Weilbacher (AIP) Astronomers released some incredible images of our Solar System this week—let’s take a peek at some of the highlights.

Nine years, 3 billion miles, and $700 million later, we are finally getting the very first high resolution photos of Pluto, thanks to a NASA spacecraft called New Horizons. It’s a pretty small ...

One NASA probe made history on Tuesday as it reached the smallest and furthest planet in our solar system. (I'm a child of the '90s, which means Pluto will always be one of our OG nine planets.

This mosaic of the new high-resolution Pluto images shows 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of the dwarf planet's surface, as taken from 50,000 miles (80,000 km) away during New Horizons' closest approach.

“The images of this new inner planet in the system is the culmination of 10 years worth of innovation, making steady progress to optimize every observation and analysis step to allow the ...

After nine-and-a-half years, 3 billion miles and heart-stopping drops in communication, the moment has arrived: New Horizons, NASA’s spacecraft designed to explore the furthest reaches of our ...