May 16 2019
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New Horizons mission scientists have released the first peer-reviewed results from their study of 2014 MU69,…
Feb 28 2019
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Just months after discovering FarOut, the most distant known object in the Solar System, the same team of…
Feb 9 2019
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The distant (486958) 2014 MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule, made history on New Year’s Day for becoming the farthest…
Jan 28 2019
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Japanese astronomers spotted evidence of tiny Kuiper Belt object at the outer edge of the Solar System using a pair…
Jan 25 2019
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If you’re anything like me, you were probably a little disappointed when you saw the first pictures of Kuiper belt…
Jan 22 2019
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The odd orbital arrangements of objects beyond Neptune have led scientists to speculate about the existence of a…
Dec 21 2018
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NASA’s New Horizons is en route to Ultima Thule, a journey that will see the NASA spacecraft whiz past this…
Dec 18 2018
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Today was the last possible day for mission controllers to adjust the trajectory of the New Horizons spacecraft as…
Dec 17 2018
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A team of astronomers has discovered the most extreme trans-Neptunian object in the outer reaches of the Solar…
Aug 29 2018
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Though it’s still 107 million miles from its target, the New Horizons spacecraft has caught a first glimpse of…
Jun 7 2018
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Pluto’s most famous visitor, the New Horizons spacecraft, has woken up after 165 days of hibernation.
May 24 2018
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Pluto may not be a planet, but it remains one of the most intriguing objects in the outer Solar System. Its…
Apr 12 2018
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Up until July 2015, Pluto’s largest Moon, Charon, was just a pixel in terms of what we knew about it. That all…
Feb 9 2018
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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is now 3.79 billion miles from Earth, or around 41 times the distance between the…
Dec 13 2017
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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is currently hurtling towards MU69, a Kuiper Belt object located a billion miles past…
Jul 20 2017
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In about a year and a half from now, the New Horizons Spacecraft will whiz past a distant Kuiper Belt object named…
Oct 20 2016
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New research links the odd and unexplained six-degree tilt of our Sun to an undiscovered planet in the outer reaches…
Oct 18 2016
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NASA’s New Horizons space probe is currently speeding towards a mysterious Kuiper Belt Object known as MU69. Recent…
Sep 2 2016
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Jul 2 2016
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In 2015, NASA’s New Horizons mission made history when it captured the first detailed images of Pluto at the far…