As New Horizons and its scientists prepare for the end of a solar conjunction in two days and the resumption of science data downlink from the craft of its historic flyby of 2014 MU69 on New Year’s Day, Alan Stern and his team are busy analyzing the first few datasets returned from the spacecraft before the solar conjunction began on 4 January.
It’s a contact binary, two different spherical rocks permanently touching each other and bound together…
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made history once again, completing a daring mission encounter at…
The New Horizons spacecraft has come out of hibernation to begin preparations for its January…
As science teams and researchers spent 2017 pouring through the wealth of data returned by…
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…
For the better part of 18 months, a Central Texas-based rocket startup known as Firefly…
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…