When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto five years ago this week, it captured detailed views of the mysterious icy dwarf planet on the edge of our solar system. Since then, data gathered ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, July 14th of 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made its closest encounter with Pluto after a near-decade trek through our solar system. Clyde Tombaugh first discovered Pluto in February ...

full advantage of a flyby of the icy dwarf planet Tuesday with astronomy-themed face painting, an extra Pluto presentation and a live NASA stream that will tell the world whether the mission was ...

(MEDIA GENERAL) – As NASA spacecraft New Horizons continues its way through space, scientists and science enthusiasts have taken to social media to express their feelings on Tuesday’s historic Pluto ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — We've made it to Pluto by NASA's calculations, the last stop on a planetary tour of the solar system a half-century in the making. The moment of closest approach for the New ...

We now know Pluto much better, thanks to NASA's New Horizons mission, leaving CNET's Eric Mack to wonder how the former planet compares to our home rock. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since ...

We are about three days from seeing even more images of Pluto like never before. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will fly by at its closest distance to Pluto at approximately 7:49 a.m., July 14, 2015.

A space-graphics artist takes New Horizons' collection of Pluto still images and turns them into a sweeping animated video that zips through space. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...

The call everyone was waiting for is in. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft phoned home just before 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday to tell the mission team and the world it had accomplished the historic first-ever ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of Pluto with its Big Planet Energy campaign for Pluto TV. Pluto may have lost its status as a full-fledged planet in 2006, ...