At the farthest edge of the Sun’s influence, the Voyager probes have stumbled into something that sounds almost mythic: a ...

Dismissed by some scientists as a mere chunk of icy rock after its celebrated discovery as the solar system's ninth planet, distant Pluto is staging a cosmic comeback. The resurgence in interest is ...

It is the only planet in our solar system as yet unvisited by spacecraft, but scientists believe it holds crucial information on the origin of our planet and of life itself. Nick Morrison reports on ...

Two months from today, something incredible will happen in the history of humanity. A spacecraft built by mere mortals like you and I will reveal the last unexplored planet — the ringleader of a group ...

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The magnificent photos of Pluto transmitted back to Earth last month by the New Horizons spacecraft pretty much represent the end. That’s all there is, and there ain’t no more. While exhilarating, the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An unmanned NASA spacecraft hurtled toward Pluto on Thursday on a 3-billion-mile journey to the solar system’s last unexplored planet — a voyage so long that some of the ...

Until a topographic map is laid out for Pluto, Frontier Developments won't change the look of the planet in Elite: Dangerous. The studio wants to do more than just "paint a new surface texture" on it.

Two weeks to New Horizons’ Pluto flyby and the NASA spacecraft’s teams are working overtime to make sure it meets the July 14 date. On June 14 a small 50-second thruster burn was completed to correct ...

ALL good things come to an end. And July 14th will see the finale of the Heroic Age of space exploration. On that day a visitor from Earth will fly past Pluto and head off into the Kuiper belt—the icy ...