Pluto was identified in 1930, but by 1994, it was still little more than a blurry pixelated smudge on astronomers’ screens. Today, we marvel at its icy plains, towering mountains, and stunningly ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Stern told reporters Monday, “The Pluto system is enchanting in its strangeness, its alien beauty.” The newest pictures, from the actual flyby, won’t be transmitted until well afterward ...

principal investigator for NASA's New Horizons mission (which made the first Pluto flyby in 2015) to speak on Pluto's behalf. Space.com has confirmed with Stern that's it's no April Fools prank.

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.

A group of New Horizons scientists took to Reddit on July 14 to answer questions about the Pluto flyby, and it quickly became clear that the preliminary data holds some curiosities. For starters ...

She's covered major science events including: The discovery of gravitational waves NASA's Pluto flyby The first image of a black hole India's successful Moon landing SpaceX's first Starship-Super ...

Pluto was discovered at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1930 and was considered our ninth planet until 2006. The International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet ...

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 ...