New Horizons
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…
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…
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…
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…
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U.S. To Restart Plutonium Production for Deep Space Exploration
The end of NASA’s plutonium shortage may be in sight. On Monday March 18th, NASA’s planetary science division head Jim…
New Horizons’ Pluto Stamp is One Step Closer to Becoming a Reality
A little over a year ago Alan Stern, principal investigator on the New Horizons mission, announced the team's plans to…
New Horizons May Need to ‘Bail Out’ to Dodge Debris, Rings and Moons in the Pluto System
Artist's concept shows the New Horizons spacecraft during its 2015 encounter with Pluto and its moon, Charon. Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI Since…
What Has the Kuiper Belt Taught Us About The Solar System?
Over 4 billion miles (6.7 billion km) from the Sun, the Kuiper Belt is a vast zone of frozen worlds…
Help Support a ‘New Horizons’ U.S. Postage Stamp!
[/caption]Today the New Horizons mission team, along with Principal Investigator Alan Stern have unveiled their proposal for a U.S Postage…
Dr. Alan Stern Answers Your Questions!
[/caption]Some of you may know, we recently launched a new "Ask" feature here at Universe Today. Our inaugural launch features…