New Horizons

New Horizons Wakes Up for the Summer

While many kids in the U.S. are starting their school summer vacations, New Horizons is about to get back to work! Speeding…

10 years ago

An Ocean On Pluto’s Moon? Hopeful Scientists Will Keep An Eye Out For Cracks

It's a lot of speculation right now, but the buzz in a new NASA study is Pluto's largest moon (Charon)…

10 years ago

The Hunt for KBOs for New Horizons’ Post-Pluto Encounter Continues

Are you ready for the summer of 2015? A showdown of epic proportions is in the making, as NASA’s New…

10 years ago

Trailer: New Horizons Gets Ready to Meet Pluto

Less than a year from now, the New Horizons spacecraft will begin its encounter with Pluto. While closest approach is…

10 years ago

NASA Halts Work on its New Nuclear Generator for Deep Space Exploration

Another blow was dealt to deep space exploration this past weekend. The announcement comes from Jim Green, NASA’s Planetary Science…

10 years ago

What New Horizons Sounds Like (Sort Of) When It Phones Home

Now that's a tune for a space geek's ears. This is a highly modified sound bite of ranging signals between…

11 years ago

Proposed Balloon Ride Would Let You See The Blackness Of Space

Doesn't that look fun? A startup company is proposing to send customers 19 miles (30 kilometers) into the air via…

11 years ago

New Horizons: I Spy Pluto and Charon!

The New Horizons spacecraft is still about 880 million kilometers (550 million miles) from Pluto, but on July 1 and…

11 years ago

Searching for Pluto: A Guide to the 2013 Opposition Season

So you’ve seen all of the classic naked eye planets. Maybe you’ve even seen fleet-footed Mercury as it reached greatest…

11 years ago

New Horizons Spacecraft ‘Stays the Course’ for Pluto System Encounter

Following an intense 18 month study to determine if NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft faced potentially destructive impact hazards during its…

11 years ago