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The discovery of another moon around Pluto is exciting news for planetary science, but it's also likely causing some anxiety for the team in charge of New Horizons, a spacecraft set to be the first ...

New Horizons sends back best photos yet as probe closes in on Pluto. New color images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show two very different faces of the mysterious dwarf planet, one with a ...

Finally, a family portrait of Pluto is beginning to emerge! For the first time ever, astronomers have captured two never-before-photographed moons orbiting Pluto. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...

Pluto sits far out in the Solar System, small and dim, moving at a pace that barely fits human timelines. It was found in ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first and only flyby of the Pluto system, culminating at the closest approach of that distant world in July 2015. Sailing onward, the probe carried out a ...