After a near decade-long journey, an unmanned NASA spacecraft will make a close shave past Pluto on Tuesday, offering scientists a detailed glimpse of the dwarf planet’s surface for the first time.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — In a day of both jubilation and tension, scientists anxiously waited Tuesday for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft to send word across 3 billion miles and confirm it got ...

CLEVELAND - Following released images of Pluto taken during the New Horizons flyby, NASA today released an animation of the distant planetoid's surface. The animation is based on images that were then ...

A groundbreaking mission that explored Pluto and distant solar system objects in unprecedented detail has awakened from its longest sleep ever — and it’s 5.9 billion miles from Earth.NASA’s New ...

Pluto just picked up a powerful ally: the head of NASA. Testifying before a Senate panel on the 2027 NASA budget Tuesday, Administrator Jared Isaacman made clear he wants the icy world reinstated as a ...