Pluto was identified in 1930, but by 1994, it was still little more than a blurry pixelated smudge on astronomers’ screens.

Although Pluto has a rocky core ... although the two structures are similar in volume, Singer said. The New Horizons mission was launched in 2006 by NASA (HUBBLESITE) “I think it's a little ...

Images and data have been flowing in since NASA's epic New Horizons Pluto flyby on Tuesday morning, and the latest image released shows an exaggerated color map of Pluto and its moon Charon.

NASA has given a new lease of life to its New Horizons mission, which in 2015 got the first-ever close-ups images of dwarf planet Pluto. Thought to be a target for cost savings, according to Space ...

As I write this, some of my father's ashes are on their way to Pluto aboard the New Horizons spacecraft. Launched in 2006, the spacecraft, if all goes to plan, will make a flyby of Pluto in 2015.

Artistic representation of the huge and slow impact on Pluto that led to the heart-shaped Sputnik ... [+] Planitia structure on its surface. Ever since NASA's New Horizons sent back the first-ever ...

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft, one of the most advanced ever built, is scheduled to fly by Pluto to take the very first detailed images of the dwarf planet. After nine years and 3 ...

It’s a time to look beyond the present moment and explore new horizons. Pluto, on the other hand, is the planet of death, rebirth and transformation. It sheds light on what’s hidden beneath ...

We know about Pluto. But we don’t really know it. That will change on July 14, when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to fly within 8,000 miles of the frozen dwarf. It’s a risky ...

After almost a decade in space, the New Horizons probe's close encounter with Pluto lasted just six days as it hurtled past at nearly 50,000 kilometres an hour. I was lucky enough to witness ...