More than two years after New Horizons flew past Pluto, becoming the first human-made object to visit the dwarf planet, numerous surface features discovered and explored by the craft now have official names as recognized by the International Astronomical Union. Meanwhile, New Horizons itself is preparing for its 1 January 2019 encounter with 2014 MU69, a distant Kuiper Belt Object – all while its control teams search for potential additional flyby targets after the MU69 encounter.
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…
60 years ago, on May 8, 1962, Atlas-LV3C Centaur-A – designated Atlas Centaur-1 (AC-1) –…
In recent weeks, two teams of researchers released studies identifying the strange characteristics of an…
NASA and ULA (United Launch Alliance) launched NASA’s next asteroid exploration mission — Lucy —…
NASA and Lockheed Martin are another step closer to the launch of their Lucy Trojan…
In large part, it is impossible to have escaped notice of a rather large debate…
United Launch Alliance has launched NASA’s latest mission to Mars: the Perseverance rover and accompanying…
The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA have released the first pictures and preliminary findings…
It was 24 January 1986 when Voyager 2 flew by Uranus on its never-ending outbound…
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket carried out its first mission for the United States…
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket has deployed an advanced communications satellite for the US…
While the Kepler Space Telescope mission officially came to an end on 30 October 2018,…
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…
