Pluto, with its heart-shaped glacier, as captured by the New Horizons spacecraftJPL/NASA Pluto will mark a birthday of sorts on March 23, 2178. No one is likely to be there to celebrate it, of course.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first and only flyby of the Pluto system, culminating at the closest approach of that distant world in July 2015. Sailing onward, the probe carried out ...

This high-resolution image captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft combines blue, red and infrared images to show a bright expanse on Pluto known ... world in July 2015. Late last year, a ...

Many astronomy enthusiasts know of Alan Stern, the Principal Investigator of the New Horizons spacecraft mission that conducted a flyby of the Pluto system in 2015. Stern is an outspoken critic of ...

NASA sent its probe New Horizons on a flyby in 2015. It confirmed the tiny planet harbored an ocean beneath its thick, icy shell. Pluto was always in a tough spot when it came to being a planet.

We’ve learned a lot about poor, poor little Pluto — thanks to NASA’s New Horizons probe, which visited the dwarf planet in 2015. 1 - Instead of an ancient, inert rock, we’ve found an icy ...

Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in ... the history of astronomy. The New Horizons station is the first man-made object to reach Pluto.

Pluto remained the only one of the solar system’s major worlds that never received a visit—a slight that was not rectified until the New Horizons spacecraft flew by it in 2015. In 2006 ...

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...

The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show '3 ...