When New Horizons flew past Pluto in 2015, it revealed a surprisingly active, icy world full of unexpected landscapes, glaciers, and possible cryovolcanoes. Despite being reclassified as a dwarf ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft pulled off the most distant exploration of another world Tuesday, skimming past a tiny, icy object 4 billion miles from Earth that looks to be shaped like a bowling pin.

Pluto imparted a slight but measurable alteration to the New Horizons spacecraft's trajectory (both bending and acceleration) during its 2015 flyby. The minimal nature of this trajectory change was ...

Discover the incredible story of NASA's New Horizons mission, from its 2006 launch aboard an Atlas V rocket to its historic 2015 flyby of Pluto. Learn how this space probe, utilizing a gravitational ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA, USA, September 18, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- The National Space Society recently joined forces with the Beyond Earth Institute and the ...