New Horizons was the first spacecraft to visit dwarf planet Pluto and Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth. The spacecraft is still actively exploring the solar system.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Do you remember where you were on January 19th, 2006 at 14:00 EST? Unless you have an extremely detailed journaling addiction, I’m guessing you don’t. If you have a fondness for a certain ...

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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 ...

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 ...