However, to confirm this thesis, it is necessary to obtain further readings from New Horizons. Scientists continue to ...

The moment Alan Stern (L) had confirmation that New Horizons had flown by the Kuiper Belt object "There was the prevailing theory from the late 1960s of violent collisions and a more recent ...

New Horizons—the famous NASA spacecraft that flew by Pluto in 2015—is now making new discoveries beyond the Kuiper Belt. With help from the Subaru telescope in Hawaii, scientists have ...

And in a way, he will too: Tucked aboard New Horizons is a small vial of Tombaugh’s ashes, a symbolic envoy that will sail by Pluto and head farther into the Kuiper belt, perhaps chasing down ...

After visiting the Pluto-Charon system, New Horizons carried onward and flew past a Kuiper Belt object known as Arrokoth, which you can read about on NASA's website. Scott J. Kenyon and Benjamin C.

NASA launched the New Horizons probe which would provide never-before-seen images of the dwarf planet, its moons and other objects.

NASA/JHU-APL-SWRI Prof Stern said New Horizons still had fuel left and it's possible the mission might even get an extension from Nasa to try to target another object in the Kuiper Belt.

Behind the planets in the solar system is the Kuiper Belt. An inventory of similar structures around other stars shows how unusual it is.

Nov. 12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that ...

Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...

On this date, Jan. 19, 2006, the first probe ever destined to visit Pluto, its moons and other Kuiper belt objects launched from Launch Complex 41 at what is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.