The spacecraft made historic flybys of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule, but there is still more to offer
New Horizons Update: Astronomers are starting to understand Ultima Thule’s secrets
The Kuiper Belt object has been critically analysed since its flyby at the beginning of 2019, and astronomers are slowly understanding its nature
New Horizons gives a ‘goodbye glance’ toward Ultima Thule before continuing its deep space adventure
Astronomers have pieced together a sequence of images to produce a departing look at the mysterious Kuiper Belt Object
New Horizons Update: Best-yet picture of Ultima Thule has been released
After the flyby of the Kuiper Belt object on the new year, astronomers have now released the finest image of Ultima Thule to date
New Horizons Update: Spacecraft reveals Ultima Thule as entirely new world
The Kuiper Belt Object’s remarkable appearance illuminates the processes that built the planets four and a half billion years ago
New Horizons has successfully reached Ultima Thule
The greatest news to bring in the new year was that the NASA spacecraft successfully explored its first Kuiper Belt object
New Horizons has already spotted something peculiar about Ultima Thule
The lack of a light curve when examining Ultima Thule has already caused a mystery before the target’s flyby
New Horizons Update: Spacecraft takes inside course for Ultima Thule rendezvous
With no apparent hazards in its way, NASA’s mission has been given a “go” to stay on its optimal path to the Kuiper Belt Object
New Horizons Update: Ultima Thule has been spotted ahead of its flyby
NASA’s spacecraft will examine the rare Kuiper Belt object on 1 January 2019, and now it has the object in its sights
New Horizons Update: New global maps of Pluto and Charon released
Now, thanks to the efforts of the team behind the spacecraft, the first official validated topographical maps published and are available to all
New Horizons snaps record-breaking image in the Kuiper Belt…twice
New Horizons overtook Voyager 1’s record of most distant image ever taken from Earth
The New Year plan for New Horizons
On the 1 January 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft will make a flyby of a Kuiper Object over four billion miles away from Earth
NASA needs you! Help nickname New Horizons’ next flyby target
The team behind the Pluto mission is looking for your ideas on what to informally name its next flyby destination, a billion miles past the dwarf planet
New Horizons Update: Spacecraft’s new target could be a ‘double Kuiper Belt Object’
The next flyby target for the NASA mission could actually be two targets
New Horizons Update: Spacecraft returns final bits of data from Pluto flyby
The NASA mission reached a major milestone this week when the last bits of science data from its flyby – arrived safely on Earth
New Horizons Update: ‘Dead Sea’ ocean suspected under Pluto’s ‘heart’
A giant asteroid impact in the dwarf planet’s past offers new insights into the possibility of a 100-kilometre body of water beneath its surface
New Horizons Update: Pluto found to spray paint largest moon red
“Who would have thought that Pluto is a graffiti artist?”
New Horizons Update: Spacecraft gets mission extension
The NASA mission has received the green light to fly onward to an object deeper in the Kuiper Belt, known as 2014 MU69
New Horizons Update: Secrets from Pluto’s ‘twilight zone’ revealed
The spacecraft’s team has released another stunning image of Pluto only a few minutes after closest approach during July last year
New Horizons Update: Spacecraft observes first object beyond orbit of Pluto
The spacecraft has twice observed a Kuiper Belt Object orbiting more than 3 billion miles from the Sun