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 ...

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 ...

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

The spacecraft team that brought us close-ups of Pluto will ring in the new year by exploring an even more ... One billion miles beyond Pluto and an astounding 4 billion miles from Earth, Ultima ...

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 ...

"second Kuiper Belt" hiding beyond the orbit of Pluto. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Researchers may have detected a ...