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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
