The New Horizons mission needs your help. This highly successful endeavor, which has sent home unprecedented views of the most distant worlds we’ve ever seen, is currently slated for a big change. At ...

A brand-new group of frozen objects, orbiting the sun out beyond the distant Kuiper Belt, has been spotted by the Subaru telescope, working with NASA's New Horizons mission to find new targets for the ...

the black dot on the horizontal axis is the current position of New Horizons – between the two belts. The orbits of objects to the right of New Horizons are the KBOs in the suspected second belt. New ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will be able to keep exploring its exotic environs for at least another five years. The agency announced on Friday (Sept. 29) that it will keep New Horizons' lights on ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. In a somewhat shocking development, NASA has decided to extend its New Horizons mission’s ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made its first detection of its next flyby target, the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, more than four months ahead of its New Year’s 2019 close encounter.

In the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the ice giant Neptune, lies a ring of comets and dwarf planets known as the Kuiper Belt. The closest of these objects are billions of kilometers away.

KENNDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA, USA, August 21, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- NASA's highly successful New Horizons mission, which was the first and only planned spacecraft ...

New Horizons has sent back a signal confirming that it had woken up from hibernation and executed computer commands to begin bringing its systems back online. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

New Horizons is now nearly twice as far from the Sun as Pluto, the outer planets are receding fast, and interstellar space is illuminated by the vast swath of the Milky Way ahead. But the spacecraft’s ...