The spacecraft made historic flybys of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule, but there is still more to offer
Space Exploration
Space Exploration
Space Exploration
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
Space Exploration
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
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New Horizons Update: Pluto’s moon could have had an ocean
New data suggests that Charon may have had a subsurface ocean that has long since frozen and expanded
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New Horizons Update: Spacecraft returns new images of possible ice volcano
Scientists have assembled the highest-resolution colour view of one of two potential cryovolcanoes
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New Horizons Update: Spacecraft catches sight of wandering Kuiper Belt object
The spacecraft recently took the closest images ever of a distant target
Solar System
VIDEO: Take a tour of Pluto in high definition!
Composed of the sharpest views of Pluto, this movie shows the images NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its flyby of the dwarf planet on 14 July
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New Horizons Update: A day on Pluto and Charon captured by spacecraft
On approach in July, NASA’s spacecraft captured the dwarf planet rotating over the course of a full “Pluto day”
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New Horizons Update: More stunning images of Pluto’s rugged surface released
Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to the dwarf planet, the spacecraft looked back toward the Sun and captured this stunning near-sunset view
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New Horizons Update: New “complicated” images of dwarf planet Pluto released
New close-up images reveal a bewildering variety of surface features that have scientists reeling because of their range and complexity
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New Horizons Update: New data promises highest ever resolution images of Pluto
If you liked the spacecraft’s first historic images of the dwarf planet, you’ll love what’s to come
Solar System
Pluto mission – NASA interview
“If we could move New York City to Pluto, we could count the ponds in Central Park.”
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New Horizons Update: New images of Pluto released
New higher-resolution views of the dwarf planet – taken before the spacecraft went into safe mode – have been released