New Horizons News

The routine calibration frame of the wishing well galactic open star cluster, made by Lorri on 5 December last year, was taken when New Horizons was 6.12 billion kilometres from earth, Nasa says

The next flyby target of Nasa's New Horizons' mission, which is a peanut-shaped object a billion miles past Pluto, might have company in the form of a small moon, astronomers say

Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft is on its way to explore 2014 MU69, ancient object located about 1.6 billion km beyond Pluto in Kuiper Belt

It took more than five hours for the image to reach Earth from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, some 3 billion miles away

Nasa finds a handful of potential clouds in images taken with New Horizons' cameras during its historic Pluto flyby of in July last year

Scientists say if Pluto's ocean had frozen, it would have caused the entire planet to shrink, on the contrary, New Horizons showed signs that Pluto has been expanding

With a resolution of about 80 meters per pixel, the mosaic affords the best opportunity to examine the fine details of the various types of terrain on Pluto

High-resolution photographs from Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft show a geologically active world 3 billion miles from Earth, with an underground ocean

Researchers suggest the mark may have been caused by a process known as sublimation

Pluto's Cthulhu streach is covered by a layer of dark tholins - complex molecules that form when methane is exposed to sunlight