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
Solar System
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
Solar System
Rosetta’s comet was moulded from the stress of its rotation
The comet’s unusual distinct dual-lobe shape has been a mystery since its initial discovery, and holds clues as to its formation
Space Exploration
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
Space Exploration
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
Astronomy
Heroes of Space: Clyde Tombaugh
The amateur astronomer who discovered Pluto and visited the dwarf planet after his death
Space Exploration
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
Space Exploration
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
Space Exploration
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
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
Solar System
Astronomers find new evidence for Pluto’s ancient glaciation
This latest research focuses on one of the most enigmatic landforms yet seen on the dwarf planet Pluto
Space Exploration
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
Solar System
Pluto could be a ‘giant comet’
New research into the formation of Pluto explores the idea that the dwarf planet was originally formed from ancient comets
Solar System
Pluto’s moon gets its first surface feature names
Almost three years after NASA’s New Horizons mission flew past Charon, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has named some of its landmarks
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
Solar System
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
Space Exploration
NASA announces finalists for next robotic mission to explore the Solar System
The next New Frontier mission has been narrowed down to two final concepts
Space Exploration
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
Solar System
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
Space Exploration
VIDEO: Check out this brand new flyover movie of Pluto as you’ve never seen it before
Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of the dwarf planet, mission scientists have created a film that offers a spectacularly new perspective