Because Pluto is so far, it took time for the spacecraft to transmit all of its stunning views of the distant dwarf planet. Now, NASA has released the sharpest photos the spacecraft took.

The fastest spacecraft ever at launch, it will reach Pluto on July 14, 2015. Photograph by NASA 2006New ... a great migration that sent small bodies flying and turned the solar system into an ...

Here are the five most surprising things discovered by the deep-space instrument. After almost a decade in space, the New Horizons probe's close encounter with Pluto lasted just six days as it ...

Meet New Horizons, arriving at Pluto on July 14. Small and light, the fastest spacecraft ever launched ... no lingering for months or even years to photograph and study. No mulligans.

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high-resolution images from Pluto. How the data delay works New Horizons talks to Earth through a system of four antennas. These allow the spacecraft to transmit raw data, receive commands, send ...

Two NASA spacecraft have teamed up to capture direct images of Uranus. The Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons Pluto probe formed a cool tag team to investigate the mysterious seventh ...

They estimate Pluto's ocean is, at most, about 8% denser than seawater on Earth, or roughly the same as Utah's Great Salt Lake. If you could somehow get to Pluto's ocean, you could effortlessly float.

The Pluto-Kuiper Express is currently slated to become the first spacecraft to visit the mysterious world, the smallest and usually farthest planet-like body from the sun. The Planetary Society on ...