As science teams and researchers spent 2017 pouring through the wealth of data returned by the New Horizons spacecraft during its historic flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto in July 2015, the spacecraft’s controllers spent the year busily preparing the craft for its anticipated flyby of Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 – a flyby event scheduled for exactly one year from today on 1 January 2019.
More than two years after New Horizons flew past Pluto, becoming the first human-made object…
In preparation for New Horizons’ flyby of its next Kuiper Belt target, 2014 MU69, the…
A year and a half after its historic flyby of dwarf planet Pluto, NASA’s New…
It was the dominant event in spaceflight last year: New Horizons’ rapid-paced, intense scientific investigation…
Over two months after its historic flyby of Pluto, New Horizons is sending back a…
Humanity has visited the dwarf planet Pluto – the first-ever Kuiper Belt Object visited by…
Nine years after launching on an Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force…
Two NASA spacecraft are to join forces in finding a new deep space target ripe…
An Atlas V carrying Pluto-bound probe New Horizons has successfully launched on its third attempt…
As the Atlas V – which will carry the New Horizons spacecraft into space for…
The Juno spacecraft has beamed back stunning images from its recent – and closest –…
Ongoing work at the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral is continuing to lay the…
For the past several years, the historic launch pads at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida,…
The 2013 year was another busy and productive year for NASA and the world’s space…
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket launched the AFSPC-11 mission for the United States Air…
It’s been said before, but it bears repeating: Tuesday was a momentous and historic day…
The long-awaited and much anticipated heavy lift rocket from SpaceX has become most powerful and…
At 22:47:56 EST on Friday, 31 January 1958 (03:47 UTC on 1 February), a Juno…
Exactly 38 years to the day after Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to encounter…