By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has successfully conducted the first-ever deep space stellar navigation test, while traversing the Kuiper Belt.

New Horizons just completed its first successful stellar navigation test in deep space, a groundbreaking moment for ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully demonstrated a revolutionary method for deep space navigation, as the probe ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled so far from Earth that the relative position of the stars is beginning to shift — a fact that could help future spacecraft navigate the galaxy on their own.

While for most people Pluto is the most distant planet in the Solar System, things get a lot more fuzzy once you pass Neptune ...

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...

Additionally, dedicated observations from the extended New Horizons Kuiper Belt mission have provided detailed insights into the surface geology and impact characteristics of Kuiper Belt Objects ...

More than $10 billion in funds are included in Trump’s tax and spending bill for NASA programs previously targeted by the ...

A hard-driving space probe is still cruising beyond Pluto, its instruments healthy and its fuel tanks half full. Yet a single ...

Sedna will reach its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, providing an exploration opportunity we won’t get for another ...

He surveyed the Kuiper Belt for a post-Pluto target for the New Horizons mission (leading to co-discovery of the extended mission target Arrokoth). He conducted the astrodynamics analyses to determine ...