Pluto was identified in 1930, but by 1994, it was still little more than a blurry pixelated smudge on astronomers’ screens.

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 ...

There are practical and sentimental reasons for that—Pluto has tantalizing mysteries to unlock that New Horizons, the most recent spacecraft to visit the system, only added to. To research those ...

An curved arrow pointing right. It took NASA's New Horizons spacecraft over nine years to reach the distant world of Pluto, but it was well worth the wait. This video reveals six weeks of images ...

In July, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time. The photos the craft sent back so far have astounded researchers. New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says ...

Artistic representation of the huge and slow impact on Pluto that led to the heart-shaped Sputnik ... [+] Planitia structure on its surface. Ever since NASA's New Horizons sent back the first-ever ...

NASA has given a new lease of life to its New Horizons mission, which in 2015 got the first-ever close-ups images of dwarf planet Pluto. Thought to be a target for cost savings, according to Space ...

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft, one of the most advanced ever built, is scheduled to fly by Pluto to take the very first detailed images of the dwarf planet. After nine years and 3 ...

Although Pluto has a rocky core ... although the two structures are similar in volume, Singer said. The New Horizons mission was launched in 2006 by NASA (HUBBLESITE) “I think it's a little ...