On January 19, 2006, NASA launched a spacecraft to Pluto! New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano, and it became the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto. It launched from Cape ...

This combination of images made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2002 and 2003 shows Pluto at different angles. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is nearing the end of its nine-year voyage to Pluto, ...

As August begins, the New Horizons spacecraft continues its space-simulation testing in a large vacuum chamber at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The chamber we are using is capable of achieving a ...

RED LODGE — Paul Henry wondered for 16 years if a spacecraft he helped design would ever leave Earth. Two weeks ago, Henry watched as the Pluto-bound New Horizons hurtled out of sight over Cape ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Pluto is considered a planetary oddball -- a tiny, frozen world so unlike the other planets that some astronomers doubt whether it even deserves to be called a planet.

The voyage of NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft through the Jupiter system earlier this year provided a bird’s-eye view of a dynamic planet that has changed since the last close-up looks by ...

More than nine years after its launch, a U.S. spacecraft sailed past Pluto on Tuesday, capping a 3 billion mile (4.88 billion km) journey to the solar system’s farthest reaches, NASA said. The craft ...

While most people are preoccupied with what’s happening above ground in the Mount Shasta area, very few people think to venture underneath it. With towering mountains, epic hikes, cascading waterfalls ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The first spacecraft to visit distant Pluto, a dwarf planet in the solar system’s frozen backyard, is still three months away from a close encounter, but already in viewing ...