NASA’s New Horizons team has identified a new group of distant Kuiper Belt objects using…
Browsing: New Horizons
New Horizons is a NASA space probe launched in 2006 with the primary mission of exploring Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. After a nearly decade-long journey, it made its historic flyby of Pluto in July 2015, capturing the first close-up images and data of the dwarf planet and its moons. The mission revealed Pluto’s surprisingly complex geology and atmosphere, challenging previous assumptions about distant icy worlds. Since then, New Horizons has continued its journey deeper into the Kuiper Belt, conducting flybys and collecting data on other ancient, icy bodies. It remains a symbol of exploration at the farthest reaches of our solar system.
Recent observations from the Subaru Telescope, combined with the New Horizons spacecraft, have suggested the…
Using the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have identified previously unknown celestial bodies in the outer Solar…
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has provided groundbreaking data from near the edge of the solar…
Deep space probe measures all the background light in the universe. How dark is dark?…
NASA’s New Horizons has discovered unexpectedly high dust levels in the Kuiper Belt, hinting at…
NASA has announced the continuation of the New Horizons mission, focusing on collecting unique heliophysics…
Recent findings from the New Horizons mission indicate that Pluto’s surface is shaped by cryovolcanism,…
Using New Horizons, researchers determined the galactic Lyman-alpha background is 20 times dimmer beyond Pluto…
NASA’s New Horizons, now 50 AU from the Sun, is still collecting groundbreaking data and…
New Measurements of the Sky’s Blackness Show Galaxies Only Number in the Hundreds of Billions…
The mountains discovered on Pluto during the New Horizons spacecraft’s flyby of the dwarf planet…
For the first time, a spacecraft has sent back pictures of the sky from so…
A model developed at the Faculty of Physics at the Technion, in collaboration with German…
Southwest Research Institute built instrument confirms solar wind slows farther away from the Sun. Research…
In a fitting tribute to the farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft, the Kuiper Belt…
NASA’s New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever…
The mission team called it a “stretch goal” – just before closest approach, precisely pointing…