Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was ...

The first mission to distant planet Pluto is under way after the successful launch today of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. New Horizons roared into the ...

Pluto will complete its first orbit since 1930 in 2178, a historic 248-year space journey that spans generations of humans.

Pluto has not completed a single orbit since its 1930 discovery. With a 248-year journey around the Sun, the dwarf planet will finish its first full circuit in 2178.

When the International Astronomical Union announced in 2006 that Pluto was being demoted from its status as the Sun’s ninth planet, many astronomers and non-experts alike were shocked. Pluto remains ...

When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, it revealed a world far more active and complex than scientists expected. Researchers later found evidence that a liquid ocean may exist ...

Subaru Telescope has been collaborating with the NASA’s first Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission called “New Horizons.” This article introduces the mission features and research contents. Solar system ...

For decades, Pluto remained one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, until July 14, 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to visit it up close, capturing ...

~ The probe will take years to reach its target. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- It will be the fastest spacecraft ever launched, zooming past the moon in nine hours and reaching Jupiter in just over a year ...

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.