NASA's New Horizons became the first spacecraft to visit dwarf planet Pluto in July 2015 ... New Horizons is still exploring our solar system and on April 17, 2021, the spacecraft reached a ...

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...

Now, the spacecraft is on its way to a small, ancient object located about 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto in the ... Hanneke enjoys exploring the Rocky Mountains, basking ...

Whether she's covering breaking news, explaining complex science topics or exploring the weirder sides ... of an object orbiting 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. NASA has certainly been through ...

Well beyond satisfying the innate human desire to explore strange new worlds, the encounter with Pluto is epic because ... Belt and the Oort Cloud while exploring the icy ‘third zone’ of ...

But as humans have continued exploring our Solar System ... both dwarf planets are far beyond even Pluto’s icy corner of the Solar System. Everyone’s favorite demoted planet travels a lonely ...

Scientists have identified regions on the lunar surface that may be the coldest places in our solar system, with temperatures plunging far below those found on Pluto. However, even these frigid ...

After several months, he successfully located a round, rocky object beyond Uranus that he believed might contribute to its orbital wobble. It would eventually be named Pluto after the Roman god of ...