We know about Pluto. But we don’t really know it. That will change on July 14, when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to fly within 8,000 miles of the frozen dwarf. It’s a risky ...

Before the flyby, says Owen, the time of New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto could not be predicted to better than a few hundred seconds. Optical navigation pictures in the last week before ...

To date, only a single mission, the 2015 New Horizons flyby, has ever dropped by Pluto. Even in a single brief encounter, the snapshots it returned of Pluto’s surface were enough to overturn ...

The team used details of Uranus' clouds collected using Hubble to verify what the New Horizons spacecraft — launched in 2006 ...

Images and data have been flowing in since NASA's epic New Horizons Pluto flyby on Tuesday morning, and the latest image released shows an exaggerated color map of Pluto and its moon Charon.

which is about half Pluto's size. Previous research, including a flyby from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, revealed that the moon's surface was coated by water ice. But scientists couldn ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Talk about a long download time. Scientists on Earth have finally received the last ...

An SwRI-led team detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide spectral signatures on Pluto’s largest moon ... the wavelength coverage of previous New Horizons flyby measurements (pink).

An SwRI-led team detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide spectral signatures on Pluto’s largest moon ... the wavelength coverage of previous New Horizons flyby measurements (pink).

Things have been a mess since Pluto's demotion. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted on the definition of a planet. Famously, Pluto no longer met the criteria and was demoted ...