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New Horizons sends back best photos yet as probe closes in on Pluto. New color images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show two very different faces of the mysterious dwarf planet, one with a ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- NASA just received a signal back from New Horizons, confirming a successful first flyby of Pluto. Euphoria broke out at NASA as Pluto is now the most distant object reached by ...

For decades, Pluto remained one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, until July 14, 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to visit it up close, capturing ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — We’ve made it to Pluto by NASA’s calculations, the last stop on a planetary tour of the solar system a half-century in the making. The moment of closest approach for the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — In a day of both jubilation and tension, scientists anxiously waited Tuesday for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to send word across 3 billion miles and confirm it got ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- It's showtime for Pluto. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled 3 billion miles and is near the end of its nine-year journey to Pluto. Today, it begins photographing the ...

RENO, Nev. (MyNews4.com & KRNV) -- NASA is set to make history Tuesday. "NASA and our country has been the first to take pictures of every planet surface with a probe and this is no exception," said ...

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 a ...