Five years after Pluto encounter, New Horizons probe does a far-out parallax experiment NASA’s New Horizons probe has measured the distance to nearby stars using a technique that’s as old as the ancient… Read More
How a space snowman called Arrokoth is shedding new light on planetary origins The space snowman that was the focus of a close encounter with NASA’s New Horizons probe last year is helping… Read More
‘Ultima Thule’ no more: New Horizons’ space snowman is named Arrokoth The snowman-shaped object that NASA’s New Horizons probe flew past nearly a year ago on the solar system’s icy fringe… Read More
New Horizons’ far-out findings from solar system’s Kuiper Belt turn into a cover story The space snowman known as 2014 MU69 or Ultima Thule added to its celebrity today by showing up on the… Read More
Ultimate Ultima: New Horizons team shares sharpest view of space snowman The scientists behind NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have released the sharpest possible view of the mission’s latest target, a smooshed-in… Read More
New Horizons probe sends a sharper view of space snowman … with a bashed-in face NASA’s New Horizons probe has already shown that its icy target, more than 4 billion miles away on the solar… Read More
New Horizons probe delivers 3-D views of cosmic snowman, plus mysteries to solve LAUREL, Md. — The science team behind NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft today released the first 3-D image of an icy object… Read More
NASA’s New Horizons probe reveals the shape of its icy target: ‘It’s a snowman!’ LAUREL, Md. — The New Horizons spacecraft’s picture of an icy object 4 billion miles from Earth became a lot… Read More
Success! NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft ‘phones home’ from 4 billion miles away LAUREL, Md. — NASA’s New Horizons science team today received confirmation that its spacecraft survived a New Year’s encounter with an… Read More
New Horizons team celebrates history’s farthest flyby with New Year’s sparkle LAUREL, Md. — Hundreds of well-wishers took part in a different kind of New Year’s countdown, 33 minutes past midnight,… Read More
Queen’s rock-star astrophysicist Brian May debuts his space anthem for a far-out trip LAUREL, Md. — After you’ve participated in NASA’s New Horizons mission to the edge of the solar system, and written… Read More
New Horizons team gets first fuzzy glimpse of elongated icy world on solar system’s edge LAUREL, Md. — The science team for NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft released its first multi-pixel view of an icy world… Read More
Watch New Horizons probe ring in the New Year with record-setting Ultima Thule flyby LAUREL, Md. — The sleeping bags are rolled out and the videos are cued up for a New Year’s celebration of… Read More
Year in Space: From the Falcon Heavy’s first flight to the solar system’s last frontier Launches, launches, launches! 2018 was a big year for liftoffs, particularly for SpaceX and its billionaire CEO, Elon Musk. The… Read More
12 years after launch, New Horizons probe zeroes in on mysterious Ultima Thule Act Two of the 12-year-old New Horizons mission to Pluto and the solar system’s icy Kuiper Belt is heating up, with… Read More
What is a ‘planet’? Historical study revisits the debate over Pluto and other dwarfs Twelve years after the International Astronomical Union voted in a definition of planethood that reclassified Pluto, the debate goes on.… Read More
NASA’s New Horizons and OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spot their deep-space targets The next few months are due to bring two amazing interplanetary encounters: a rendezvous with an asteroid and a flyby… Read More
NASA’s New Horizons probe wakes up from its robotic slumber for post-Pluto flyby The mission operations team for NASA’s New Horizons probe has awakened the spacecraft from its robotic hibernation, and now it’ll… Read More
Planetary scientists suggest that Pluto was put together from a billion comets Did Pluto form like its closer-in brethren in the solar system, or is it the result of an agglomeration of… Read More
Pluto’s champion recounts first mission to icy world – and gears up for the next one It took nine years for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to get to Pluto, and laying the groundwork for that history-making… Read More
Scientists give nickname to New Horizons probe’s post-Pluto target: Ultima Thule News Brief: Nearly three years after flying past Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is heading for a target more than… Read More
3.8 billion miles! New Horizons spacecraft sends pictures from farthest vantage point Two and a half years after becoming the first probe to study Pluto up close, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is… Read More
Help NASA and New Horizons nickname the icy world they’re targeting after Pluto 2014 MU69 just won’t cut it, so NASA and the folks behind the New Horizons mission want you to help… Read More
Astronomers give their official blessing to the first batch of place names on Pluto Some of the best-known places on Pluto, including the heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio, have finally gone legit. But lots of other… Read More
IAU and New Horizons science team make peace over the names on Pluto’s map It’s taken a year and a half, but the International Astronomical Union and the science team behind NASA’s New Horizons… Read More
New Horizons probe finishes transmitting data from Pluto flyby after 15 months More than 15 months after NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, the last bit of data captured during the… Read More
How deep does Pluto’s ocean go? Would you believe nine times deeper than Earth’s? Scientists have been saying for months that Pluto could have a salty, sloshing ocean beneath its icy surface, but now… Read More
How Pluto’s methane turned into red ‘spray paint’ on its biggest moon Charon When NASA’s New Horizons probe sent back pictures of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, researchers were surprised to see a big… Read More
Outdated ‘Pluto: Not Yet Explored’ stamp takes spotlight as most traveled postage We’ve known for years that a 1991 Pluto stamp included on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is the farthest-out piece of… Read More
One year after Pluto flyby, New Horizons mission looks back and looks ahead One year ago today, NASA’s New Horizons probe whizzed past Pluto and opened up a new frontier for planetary science –… Read More
