It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

Image: Mosaic of high-resolution images of Pluto, sent back from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft from Sept. 5 to 7, 2015. The image is dominated by the informally-named icy plain Sputnik Planum ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made history by flying past Pluto, sending back groundbreaking data that would change our ...

NASA has released the latest images from New Horizons’ historic Pluto flyby, which reveal the dwarf planet’s stunning range of surface features.

NASA released the photos today (Feb. 4), on the birthday of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930. (Tombaugh died in 1997 at age 90.) [ Photos from NASA's New Horizons ...

The new images, which New Horizons captured during its historic flyby of Pluto on Tuesday (July 14), will be released in concert with a news conference that starts today at 1 p.m. EDT. You can ...

NASA has released the first images taken during New Horizons’ historic flyby of dwarf planet Pluto. “We have got a whole bunch of high-resolution observations safely on the spacecraft,” said ...

New high-res photos of the dwarf planet show a terrain that NASA scientists didn't expect to find. Possible dunes, nitrogen ice flows, mountainous regions, plains and networked valleys show a ...

NASA’s successful mission to snap the first ever detailed photos of Pluto prompted the space agency to highlight similar past accomplishments. The New Horizons spacecraft journeyed 3 billion ...

It was one of the most ambitious missions for NASA since the turn of the century, with photos reshaping what scientists know about the distant world.