NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been speeding through space since early 2006 and it ... and Pluto in the 12 years since its launch, the probe is about to have a very close encounter with ...

Space looks black, but just how dark is it? It's a deceptively simple question that has puzzled astronomers since the 1960s. Now, thanks to data from NASA's New Horizons probe, they have arrived ...

Scientists and engineers will have to hold off on popping their champagne cork just a little longer than usual as they wait for the New Horizons space probe to make history, and you can watch it live.

The Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons Pluto probe formed a cool tag team to investigate the mysterious seventh ...

It seems the "space snowman" is more like a "gingerbread ... The pictures, taken by the New Horizons probe on 1 January, show the apparently bulbous body to be quite flat. This interpretation ...

151; -- After a journey stretching 3 billion miles, NASA's New Horizons probe has awakened from hibernation just in ... took an astounding 4 hours and 26 minutes to reach NASA's Deep Space Network ...

The American space agency is waiting for a signal from its New Horizons probe to confirm that it has made a successful flyby of Ultima Thule. The craft should have hurtled by the 30km-wide icy ...

but from a vantage point those mariners could only… Read More The space snowman that was the focus of a close encounter with NASA’s New Horizons probe last year is helping scientists answer a ...

but from a vantage point those mariners could only… Read More The space snowman that was the focus of a close encounter with NASA’s New Horizons probe last year is helping scientists answer a ...

New Horizons is the first mission to the dwarf planet Pluto. Launched in 2006, New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto was nine long years later in 2015. Pluto lies in the Kuiper belt on the edge of ...

Earlier this week, NASA's New Horizons space probe had the closest encounter with the dwarf planet Pluto. Here are some images from its decade-long journey. PCMag PCMag.com and PC Magazine are ...