Dr. Alan Stern, principal investigator of NASA's New Horizons mission - exploring Pluto and beyond, sits down with Tonya Hall to talk about a new mission to explore Pluto, and even further, while ...

Exploring beyond Pluto While the team continues to analyze the plethora of data — something that could go on for decades — it's also busy planning for the next big stage of the mission, the ...

The Voyager missions are among the most groundbreaking and enduring space endeavors in history. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 ...

One billion miles beyond Pluto and an astounding 4 billion miles from Earth (1.6 billion kilometers and 6.4 billion kilometers), Ultima Thule will be the farthest world ever explored by humankind.

December 21, 2005 N. ASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will give the solar system’s ninth planet the up-close-and-personal treatment in January 2006.. This first-ever mission to Pluto will explore ...

Ultima Thule means "beyond the borders of the known world," which is a fitting description of an object orbiting 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. Enlarge Image New Horizons is exploring the very ...

But this carefully orchestrated space ballet will permanently change the face of Pluto. The dwarf planet will transform from a pixelated blur into a sharp image of rock and ice. Along with this ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

The Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped orbital region beyond Neptune at about 30 to 50 AU from ... “Exploring Pluto and the Kuiper Belt is like conducting an archeological dig into the history of ...