NASA has been quite the pop culture darling over this past year. The agency was featured prominently in “The Martian,” starring Matt Damon, and there were those pictures of Pluto before that. Then, in ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made history by flying past Pluto, sending back groundbreaking data that would change our ...

It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s.

NASA said it was revealing the most-detailed images of Pluto ever at a Wednesday news conference. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap messages Get the USA TODAY app ...

After NASA's New Horizons spacecraft spotted a heart-shaped region on Pluto, you had to know it was just a matter of time before it ended up on a valentine.

If you’re still mourning the little ball of ice formerly known as the ninth planet from the sun, you’re not alone. NASA admin Jim Bridenstine misses Pluto, too.

NASA has released the first images taken during New Horizons’ historic flyby of dwarf planet Pluto. “We have got a whole bunch of high-resolution observations safely on the spacecraft,” said ...

It might not look like much, but to astronomers it's the first image that gives a hint of Pluto's surface. NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI. It might still be about 70 million miles from Pluto, but that can't ...

In this handout provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the dwarf planet Pluto (R) and its largest moon, Charon, are shown on July 11, 2015.

It will soon be "Pluto Time" in another sense: On July 14, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will make the first-ever flyby of the dwarf planet, zooming within 7,800 miles (12,500 km) of its frigid ...

It was one of the most ambitious missions for NASA since the turn of the century, with photos reshaping what scientists know ...