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Researchers in an Arizona ice lab spend long hours coaxing crystal-clear ice from mixes of methane, nitrogen and even carbon monoxide -- and now, with data from the New Horizons mission to Pluto arriving soon, the ice la...

A few months before New Horizons was due to reach Pluto, a community of scientists came together to determine just what kind of a environment the mission would experience during its historic flyby....

While New Horizons will be all by its lonesome while it speeds past Pluto July 14, a fleet of spacecraft closer to home will also be watching the dwarf planet.

The Falcon 9 exploded less than 3 minutes after blasting off on June 28, scuttling SpaceX's seventh contracted resupply flight to the orbiting lab for NASA. The consequences of the mishap will probably be substantial for...

A new image, which NASA's New Horizons probe took Thursday (July 9) from a distance of 3.3 million miles (5.4 million kilometers), reveals polygonal features and a 1,000-mile-long (1,600 km) band of patterned, dark-and-l...

Mariner 4 was the first spacecraft to fly by Mars and send home close-up images. Find out how the mission changed the way we explore the Red Planet....

It's Antarctic winter on Pluto. The sun has not been visible for twenty years in this frigid south polar region; it will not shine again for another 80 years. The only source of natural light is starlight and moonlight f...

Two of NASA's heliophysics missions can now claim planetary science on their list of scientific findings. A group of scientists used the Venus transit - a very rare event where a planet passes between Earth and the sun, ...

This little-known galaxy, officially named J04542829-6625280, but most often referred to as LEDA 89996, is a classic example of a spiral galaxy....

SpaceNews is reporting this week from New Horizons mission control at the Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. Our special coverage of the July 14 Pluto flyby is sponsored by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp...

It began as a point of light. Then, it evolved into a fuzzy orb. Now - in its latest portrait from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft - Pluto is being revealed as an intriguing new world with distinct surface features, inclu...

July 10th daily pre-flyby overview of the New Horizons mission, the spacecraft and its suite of instruments and a summary of Pluto science to date from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Lau...

NASA has selected four astronauts to work closely with two U.S. commercial companies that will return human spaceflight launches to Florida's Space Coast....

For now, just call them the Commercial Crew Cadre.