Pluto may have been downgraded from full-planet status, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hold a special place in scientist's ...

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 ...

Before the flyby, says Owen, the time of New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto could not be predicted to better than a few hundred seconds. Optical navigation pictures in the last week before ...

It is now three years since New Horizons made its remarkable flyby of dwarf planet Pluto. That was a technical tour de force and acquiring observations at Ultima will be just as tricky.

I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. NASA ’s New Horizons Pluto flyby is revealing a surface partially rich in carbon monoxide ice; likely streaked in ...

The team used details of Uranus' clouds collected using Hubble to verify what the New Horizons spacecraft — launched in 2006 ...

"We've just accomplished the most distant flyby." This first radio message ... and 1.5 billion km beyond even the dwarf planet Pluto which New Horizons visited in 2015. It's estimated there ...

To date, only a single mission, the 2015 New Horizons flyby, has ever dropped by Pluto. Even in a single brief encounter, the snapshots it returned of Pluto’s surface were enough to overturn ...

New Horizons already has beamed back the ... On the eve of the flyby, NASA announced that Pluto is actually bigger than anyone imagined, thanks to measurements made by the spacecraft, a baby ...

New Horizons project manager. Ultima Thule, at 4 billion miles (about 6.4 billion km) from the Sun and 1 billion miles (about 1.6 billion km) from Pluto, will be the most distant object ever directly ...