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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 ...

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 ...

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) — 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 ...

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 ...

It has taken nearly a decade and 3 billion miles to get there, but scientists are about to get their first look at Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft is closing fast on the tiny world once thought to ...