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

Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

Pluto isn’t considered a planet because it lacks enough gravity to clear its orbit, not just because of its distance. Despite receiving less than 1% of Earth’s sunlight, Pluto is still surprisingly ...

NASA launched New Horizons to explore Pluto. In 2019, it visited the furthest object in the Solar System we have seen up close.

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have discovered a strange new body in a weird orbit at the edge of the solar system, ...

NASA and USGS are mapping critical minerals in the American West using airborne sensors to help reduce U.S. reliance on ...

If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s.

NASA’s New Horizons probe, which hurtled past Pluto in 2015, demonstrates that it can sail through interstellar space using ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been used to demonstrate simple interstellar navigation by measuring the parallax of just two stars. An international team was able to determine the location and ...

Japanese astronomers have discovered a potential dwarf planet, nicknamed Ammonite, orbiting the Sun far beyond Neptune, challenging the existence of the theorized Planet Nine.