Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spacecraft is located 5 degrees below the Pleiades star. As the month wears on, it travels ...

The big question is: what exactly did New Horizons spot and discover as it flew through the Pluto System? Today, in the space world, let’s uncover Pluto’s secrets. Pluto was the last of the “classic” ...

Finally, a family portrait of Pluto is beginning to emerge! For the first time ever, astronomers have captured two never-before-photographed moons orbiting Pluto. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...

Discover the positions of NASA's five renowned spacecraft, including the James Webb Space Telescope, in the October night sky ...

LAUREL, Md. — Thirty-three minutes after midnight, scientists, engineers and well-wishers here at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory celebrated the moment that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft ...

NASA explains Pluto's newly discovered "blue sky" and whether or not potential astronauts could ever witness an Earth-like sunrise. The New Horizons space probe sent back its first color images of ...

AIKEN – Savannah River Site’s HB Line and H Canyon facilities processed and produced plutonium (Pu)-238 oxide used to power the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s New Horizons space probe ...