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…
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…