New Horizons Spacecraft Speeds Toward Kuiper Belt Object

New Horizons Spacecraft Speeds Toward Kuiper Belt Object

An artist’s rendering shows NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flying by its next target destination: Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69. Credit: NASA/Alex Parker NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history almost two years ago when it completed a flyby of...
New Horizons Reveals Close-Up of Pluto’s Surface

New Horizons Reveals Close-Up of Pluto’s Surface

Pluto’s surface. Credit: NASA This mosaic strip of Pluto’s surface was taken by the New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015 and is the highest-resolution image taken to date. With a resolution of about 260 feet (80 meters) per pixel, the mosaic affords...
New Horizons Mission Could Help Find Planets Beyond Neptune

New Horizons Mission Could Help Find Planets Beyond Neptune

A recent discovery found evidence of a giant planet located on the outside of our solar system, and with the help of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft we may be on the path to confirming the planet’s existence. According to a story in Space Flight Insider,...

Professor to Discuss New Horizons Mission

A professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences at the University of Colorado will be giving a lecture about the New Horizons Mission Monday. The lecture will be held from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the McMurtry Auditorium in Duncan Hall at the university. During the...
NASA Spacecraft Meets Pluto in Historic Flyby

NASA Spacecraft Meets Pluto in Historic Flyby

The latest image of Pluto captured on July 13, 2015 by New Horizons some 476,000 miles away reveals the dwarf planet’s “heart.” The photo took some 4.5 hours to transmit back to Earth 3 billion miles away, and is the most detailed image of the dwarf-planet...