Pluto is on an icy march away from the sun. In 2114, it will turn back, but until then, its elliptical orbit will carry it to ...

NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Just Woke Up From a Long Nap Ahead of Exploring Beyond Pluto ...

New Horizons is often placed into a resource-saving mode while cruising long distances, and had been in hibernation near Pluto since August 7.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This high-resolution image captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft combines blue, red and infrared images to show a bright ...

NASA's New Horizons probe has woken up in good health nearly 6 billion miles away beyond Pluto after spending nearly a year in hibernation.

NASA's record-breaking New Horizons spacecraft has awoken from a 321-day hibernation in "good health" as it resumes unprecedented science at the solar system's edge.

If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s. Reading time 3 minutes On July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew ...

The spacecraft on a nine-year cruise to Pluto has spent its first 100 days getting warmed up for the scientific mission ahead. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft launched from Earth on 19 January 2006. On ...

The rare encounter revealed a distant world with giant ice sheets, mountains, valleys, and terrains unlike any other seen in the solar system. By reexamining those iconic images, scientists believe ...

Recent images captured by New Horizons have unveiled six substantial landslides on Pluto, revealing intriguing gravitational slope failures across the dwarf planet's icy landscape. The remarkable ...