As the New Horizons spacecraft hurtles out towards interstellar space, it has now reached an historical milestone. On April 17,…
Just how dark is the universe, anyway? It's a pretty hard thing to measure when we're sitting this close to…
A new study based on New Horizons data has conducted the most accurate measurements of the Universe's background light to…
We can thank NASA's New Horizons spacecraft for opening our eyes up to Pluto's complexity. On July 14th, 2015, the…
From its current position in the Kuiper Belt, the New Horizons spacecraft recently conducted a parallax experiment that is not…
Earth and Pluto don't have much in common. Earth is a vibrant, living world, whereas Pluto is cold, distant and…
The KBO formerly known as Ultima Thule (2014 MU69) has officially been named "Arrokoth", the traditional Powhatan-Algonquin language.
Pluto was discovered in 1930 by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. For decades, not much detail was known about the erstwhile planet.…
Pluto is getting some new names. In the past, prior to the New Horizons mission, there wasn't much to name.…
The New Horizons team has released new images that take advantage of the "binocular effect" to create 3D impressions of…