NASA’sNew Horizons spacecraft has delivered extraordinary video footage showing towering ice mountains on Pluto’s moon Nix. These ice peaks, some rising as high as 11,000 feet, are made of pure water ...

Six years ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history with the first up-close exploration of the Pluto system – providing breathtaking views and detailed data on Pluto and its largest moon, ...

Pluto's largest moon Charon is captured glowing in "Plutoshine" in this photo taken by New Horizon in 2015. Because sunlight is weak at Pluto's distance, the photo looks pixelated. Credit: NASA/Johns ...

New Horizons mission scientists have determined that cryovolcanic activity most likely created unique structures on Pluto not yet seen anywhere else in the solar system. The amount of material ...

The groundbreaking New Horizons mission blazed past Pluto in 2015, transforming our view of the dwarf planet from just a speck to a complex world with changing geology, ice volcanoes, jagged spikes ...

We Americans are addicted to technology, whether it is sending a probe to Pluto that arrives exactly on time or exploring the ocean floor for plant and animal life we have never seen before. The money ...

A team of researchers created videos of simulated flights over Pluto and Charon which include some of the sharpest images and topographic data that New Horizons gathered during its historic flyby on ...