The New Horizons spacecraft passed Pluto on Tuesday, according to NASA, establishing that mankind — or at least one of its robot probes — has now visited the far reaches of our planetary system. “It’s ...

The last of the data from the New Horizons flyby won’t arrive until late 2016. Johns Hopkins University Applied physics laboratory/ Southwest Research Institute On July 14 at approximately 8 a.m.

Watch Pluto slowly spin and increasingly come into focus while Charon, one of the dwarf planet’s moons, dances in orbit. While you’re staring, think about the nine-year-long journey through space that ...

“This is definitely an extraordinary system,” Cathy Olkin, New Horizons Deputy Project Scientist, told NOVA Next on Tuesday. Pluto is a celestial oddball in more ways than one. It’s the only (former) ...

Don't blame astronomers. Blame Jupiter and Saturn and a strange conspiracy that formed between them around 4 billion years ago. Pluto could have been a planet. All planets start small, assembling ...

The ominous warning – “winter is coming”, popularised by fantasy series Game of Thrones – applies equally well to Pluto. The dwarf planet’s tenuous atmosphere appears to be on the verge of a stunning ...

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will arrive at this dwarf planet on March 6, 2015. Pluto is the largest object in the Kuiper belt, and NASA’s New Horizons ...

Pluto, you’ve been replaced. An astronomer whose work axed Pluto from planet status says there’s evidence that a “real ninth planet” is lurking in the corners of our solar system. The far-away object ...

Several NBCUniversal shows are going to be coming to Pluto TV, the free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) streaming service, as part of a new deal between the two companies. Starting on Tuesday and ...