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If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been used to demonstrate simple interstellar navigation by measuring the parallax of just ...
There's a broad consensus in the scientific community that a follow-up mission to Pluto should be an orbiter, and not a ...
NASA has uncovered a new ‘Super Earth’ planet just 154-lightyears away that has been flashing a mysterious signal. The planet appears to be almost twice as wide as our planet, and ...
This image, taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015, is the most accurate natural color image of Pluto. This ...
Pluto isn’t considered a planet because it lacks enough gravity to clear its orbit, not just because of its distance. Despite receiving less than 1% of Earth’s sunlight, Pluto is still surprisingly ...
On July 14, 2015, a spacecraft flew by Pluto for the first time! NASA's New Horizons spacecraft spent 9.5 years making the ...