Discover the incredible story of NASA's New Horizons mission, from its 2006 launch aboard an Atlas V rocket to its historic ...

As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic ...

Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.

If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...

We live in changing times. While we once flippantly threw villains to the lions, now we seek to fire them into the sun.

Experience the breathtaking flyby of Pluto as New Horizons transforms our understanding of the solar system Witness ice mountains taller than the Alps vast plains and a heart-shaped formation that cap ...

Pluto pulled Adeene Denton into its orbit during her undergraduate internship at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. It was summer 2015, when the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past the ...

Pluto imparted a slight but measurable alteration to the New Horizons spacecraft's trajectory (both bending and acceleration) during its 2015 flyby. The minimal nature of this trajectory change was ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two bright green comets are streaming through the skies and are visible to skygazers in the Northern Hemisphere. Both hail from the outer edges of our solar system — possibly what’s ...

Ask Lowell Observatory Director Jeffrey Hall how he feels about the visit to Pluto by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft and he literally shivers with excitement. “I can’t even think about it without ...

Hygiene Elementary students on Wednesday watched as Principal Renee Collier and teacher Maridee Moll, after lots of drum rolls, popped open a Pluto-themed time capsule that was sealed in 2016 as part ...