By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A groundbreaking mission that explored Pluto and distant solar system objects in unprecedented detail has awakened from its longest sleep ever — and it’s 5.9 billion miles (9.5 billion kilometers) from…
Pluto TV redesign on Roku replaces the longstanding left-rail guide with a horizontal top-nav featuring dedicated Movies and TV Shows tabs, the consumer-visible result of Paramount Skydance's mid-2026 plan to unify its free ad-supported…
The New Horizons encounter with Pluto was one of the strangest bargains in modern exploration. NASA spent almost a decade sending a small spacecraft across the solar system toward a point in space that Pluto would occupy on a single July…
NASA’s New Horizons probe has woken itself up after 321 days of hibernation. The aerospace agency sent commands to the probe last July, instructing it to commence hibernation on August 7 and then resume activity in July 2026. On July 23,…
On February 18, 1930, Clyde Tombaugh found a moving point of light on two photographic plates taken at Lowell Observatory in Arizona. It was not a bright object. It was not found by looking through an eyepiece and seeing a new world…
At approximately 7:49 in the morning Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, 14 July 2015 — approximately nine years, five months, and twenty-five days after departing Cape Canaveral aboard an Atlas V 551 rocket at the fastest launch speed ever…
The James Webb Space Telescope has picked up the same unexplained absorption signal on the surfaces of two very different frozen worlds, Pluto and Titan. Both show a dip at the same point in their spectra, and so far no one has been able…
Before New Horizons reached Pluto, the safest expectation was age. At nearly 40 times Earth’s distance from the Sun, Pluto seemed like the kind of world that should preserve scars. Cold, remote, small and ancient, it was expected to carry…