On January 19, 2006, NASA launched a spacecraft to Pluto! New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano, and it became the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto. It launched from Cape ...

This mission marked the first time a spacecraft was sent to explore Pluto, providing unprecedented images and data about the celestial object and its surroundings. Multimedia editor Rob Landers ...

This week, uncover some of the oldest ice on Earth, follow a dinosaur highway, learn how Pluto sealed the capture of its moon Charon with a “kiss,” and more.

Charon is made mostly of water ice. When the New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto and Charon in 2015, it imaged only one side of Charon. It found that Charon's north polar region, called Mordor ...

Jan. 7, 2025 — A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large ...

A four-year-old boy's curiosity about planets has inspired him to write his first children's book. Viaan Mundeja-Gupta, who ...