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Alan Stern

Golden Spike Still Needs Your Help to Get to the Moon

April 9, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Last December the Golden Spike Company announced its plans to enable private-sector lunar exploration missions which would be feasible, profitable, and possible — even without government funding. Comprised of veteran space program executives, managers, and engineers, Golden Spike intends to stand on the [...]

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New Horizons’ Pluto Stamp is One Step Closer to Becoming a Reality

February 26, 2013

A little over a year ago Alan Stern, principal investigator on the New Horizons mission, announced the team’s plans to have a Forever Stamp issued by the US Postal Service commemorating the New Horizons spacecraft along with its targets, Pluto and Charon. Thousands signed the petition, and today the team announced a long-awaited update to [...]

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New Horizons May Need to ‘Bail Out’ to Dodge Debris, Rings and Moons in the Pluto System

October 16, 2012

Artist’s concept shows the New Horizons spacecraft during its 2015 encounter with Pluto and its moon, Charon. Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI Since the New Horizons spacecraft left Earth back in 2006, there are a few things we know about the Pluto system now that we didn’t know then. For instance, it was discovered Pluto has two additional [...]

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What Has the Kuiper Belt Taught Us About The Solar System?

August 30, 2012

Over 4 billion miles (6.7 billion km) from the Sun, the Kuiper Belt is a vast zone of frozen worlds we still know very little about. Image: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute (JHUAPL/SwRI) Today marks the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the first Kuiper Belt Object, 1992QB1. KBOs are distant and [...]

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Fifth Moon Found Around Pluto

July 11, 2012

This just in! Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a new moon around distant Pluto, bringing the known count up to 5. The image above was released by NASA just minutes ago, showing the Pluto system with its newest member, P5. This news comes just a couple of weeks shy of the [...]

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