The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first and only flyby of the Pluto system, culminating at ...

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 ...

NASA sent its probe New Horizons on a flyby in 2015. It confirmed the tiny planet harbored an ocean beneath its thick, icy shell. Pluto was always in a tough spot when it came to being a planet.

This year also marks the 10th anniversary of Pluto's first dedicated flyby mission. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zoomed by the small world and its moons, providing the first high-resolution ...

Many astronomy enthusiasts know of Alan Stern, the Principal Investigator of the New Horizons spacecraft mission that conducted a flyby of the Pluto system in 2015. Stern is an outspoken critic of ...

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Both probes are the only spacecraft to operate beyond the heliosphere, the sun’s bubble of magnetic fields and particles that ...