If it does survive the trek into interstellar space, it won't be the first to get there. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, both ...

Now, thanks to data from NASA's New Horizons probe, they have arrived at the best-yet estimate of how dark — or rather, bright — deep space is: 100 billion times dimmer than the sunlight we ...

NASA’s New Horizons probe has measured the distance to nearby stars using a technique that’s as old as the ancient mariners, but from a vantage point those mariners could only… Read More The ...

Fifty years ago last month, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft first turned the world’s head with its 1965 successful Mars flyby. In contrast to Mariner 4’s Mars journey, however, New Horizons used ...

A new picture returned from Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft shows it to be two objects joined together - to give a look like a "snowman". The US probe's images acquired as it approached Ultima ...

New Horizons came out of hibernation on Monday and will now undergo an extensive health check, ensuring that all spacecraft instruments, computers and other systems are working properly.

Man sentenced for cloning and breeding giant sheep Previous research, including a flyby from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, revealed that the moon’s surface was coated by water ice.

Space exploration has long captured the imagination of mankind. From the first successful satellite, Sputnik, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, to the awe-inspiring images of Mars captured by NASA ...

It's a deceptively simple question that has puzzled astronomers since the 1960s. Now, thanks to data from NASA's New Horizons probe, they have arrived at the best-yet estimate of how dark — or rather, ...