New Horizons spacecraft

If Pluto has a subsurface ocean, it may be old and deep 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 1, 2020
New research hints that liquid water might be common at the solar system’s edge

By David Aragorn
New Horizons team uncovers a critical piece of the planetary formation puzzle 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 20, 2020
Data from NASA’s New Horizons mission are providing new insights into how planets and planetesimals — the building blocks of the planets — were formed.

By David Aragorn
7 things we’ve learned about Ultima Thule, the farthest place visited by humans 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 21, 2019
About a billion miles more distant than Pluto is Ultima Thule, a peanut-shaped object in the outer solar system that’s the farthest place ever visited by humans.

By David Aragorn
Ultima Thule is shaped like two lumpy pancakes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 13, 2019
New images reveal the skinny side of the Kuiper Belt object

By David Aragorn
Ultima Thule is Contact Binary, New Horizons Team Says 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 5, 2019
New images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft — taken from as close as 17,000 miles (27,000 km) on approach — revealed Ultima Thule as a contact binary.

By David Aragorn
A New Year message from the edge of the solar system 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 18, 2018
On 1 January 2019 the New Horizons probe will begin transmitting data from Ultima Thule, 4bn miles from Earth in the Kuiper belt. What will it find?

By David Aragorn
Global Mosaic and Topographic Maps of Pluto and Charon Released 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 14, 2018
NASA’s New Horizons team has released the first official global mosaic and topographic maps of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.

By David Aragorn
Charon at 40: Four Decades of Discovery on Pluto’s Largest Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 27, 2018
The largest of Pluto’s five moons, Charon, was discovered 40 years ago today by James Christy and Robert Harrington at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona – only about six miles from where Pluto itself was discovered at Lowell Observatory. They weren’t even looking for satellites of Pluto – Christy was trying to refine Pluto’s orbit around the Sun.

By David Aragorn
The New Horizons probe is awake and ready for its next flyby 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 6, 2018
Hibernation season is over for NASA’s New Horizons probe.

By David Aragorn
Secrets behind Pluto’s dunes revealed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 2, 2018
Scientists have discovered dunes on Pluto, and say they are likely to have been formed of methane ice grains released into its rarefied atmosphere.

By David Aragorn