An evocative new image sequence from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft offers a departing view of…
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.
The wonders – and mysteries – of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 continue to multiply…
This movie shows the propeller-like rotation of Ultima Thule in the seven hours between 20:00…
Data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which explored the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule earlier…
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule in the early hours of New Year’s…
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made its first detection of its next flyby target, the…
Dunes are known to form on Earth, Mars, Venus, Titan, and Comet 67P – and…
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped…
Astronomers were already excited to learn this summer that New Horizons’ next flyby target –…
Observations from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft show that Pluto is much colder than predicted, suggesting…
NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt is looking for your ideas…
New research reveals that the strange formations on Pluto’s surface are made almost entirely of…
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has officially named 14 Pluto surface features and many more…
New Horizons’ next target just got a lot more interesting. Astronomers believe that Kuiper Belt…
NASA’s New Horizons team captured an event that’s known as an occultation on an elusive…
Using data from New Horizons and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon…
The New Horizons Spacecraft won’t pass its next target until New Year’s Day 2019, but…
The New Horizons Spacecraft, traveling at 32,000 miles (51,500 kilometers) per hour, has reached the…