New Horizons just completed its first successful stellar navigation test in deep space, a groundbreaking moment for ...

While for most people Pluto is the most distant planet in the Solar System, things get a lot more fuzzy once you pass Neptune ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully demonstrated a revolutionary method for deep space navigation, as the probe ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

Artist’s concept of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it passes Pluto and Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, in July 2015 / NASA/JHU APL/SwRI/Steve Gribben ...

“This pioneering interstellar navigation demonstration and its accompanying publication show that a deep-space mission can use its onboard imaging system to find its way among the stars,” added Alan ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled so far from Earth that the relative position of the stars is beginning to shift — a fact that could help future spacecraft navigate the galaxy on their own.

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...

JWST has confirmed Pluto’s bizarre atmospheric behavior and its ghostly interaction with Charon. These findings could reshape our understanding of distant icy worlds—and even hint at how Earth once ...

If New Horizons does survive its passage through the Pluto system, a pre-selected sample of encounter data will begin arriving at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory in ...

Pluto's temperatures, climate and general circulation should therefore be substantially affected by the haze across seasons, the study said. "This is unique in the solar system. It's a new kind of ...