The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's atmosphere, while at the same time giving methane and other organic ...

Beneath Pluto’s “heart” lies a cold, slushy ocean of water ice, according to data from NASA’s New Horizons mission. In a paper published today in the journal ...

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When NASA’s New Horizons probe finally flew past Pluto, the images it sent back completely changed how we see this tiny world ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got humanity's first up-close look at Pluto on Tuesday, sending word of its triumph across 3 billion miles to scientists waiting breathlessly ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide at the surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially shedding light on its origins. When ...

After a voyage of nearly nine years and 3 billion miles (5 billion kilometers) — the farthest any space mission has ever traveled to reach its primary target — NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft came out ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is on track to sweep past Pluto next week despite hitting a “speed bump” that temporarily halted science collection. A computer overload ...

In a span of 30 years — from the first moon rockets in 1959 to the Voyager 2 flyby of Neptune in 1989 — NASA spacecraft introduced the world to close-up views of the bodies in our solar system.