For a celestial object that may or may not be a planet, Pluto sure is getting a lot of attention these days. Just days after NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said that Pluto should be given back its ...

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 ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- At Friday's press briefing, NASA scientists studying Pluto appeared to be giddy. What they once knew as only a yellowish blob is coming to life as a complex and fascinating ...

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine believes that Pluto should be a planet again. “I am here to tell you, as the NASA Administrator, I believe Pluto should be a planet,” he said, to applause during a ...

NASA explains Pluto's newly discovered "blue sky" and whether or not potential astronauts could ever witness an Earth-like sunrise. The New Horizons space probe sent back its first color images of ...

In 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft visited Pluto. However, it only managed to get a fleeting look at the unusual dwarf planet of ice and rock, and the spacecraft’s limited size meant it couldn’t ...

NASA’s Hubble telescope this week got some great pictures of our most distant planet Pluto, showing what space agency researcher’s called an icy and dark molasses-colored, mottled world. But while the ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Pluto, ...

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine believes that Pluto should be a planet again. “I am here to tell you, as the NASA Administrator, I believe Pluto should be a planet,” he said, to applause during a ...

NASA rang in the new year with a flyby near an icy planetary body roughly 1 billion miles away from Pluto — making it the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft. NASA confirmed Tuesday the ...