New Horizons spacecraft

The mysterious object NASA is visiting in 2019 might have its very own moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 13, 2017
New Horizons will soon find out what’s up with MU69.

By David Aragorn
Help NASA Nickname This Remote Space Object 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 2, 2017
NASA would like people to help name the object MU69 that the New Horizons’ team has discovered.

By David Aragorn
Nasa to wake up New Horizons spacecraft for voyage into mysterious Third Zone 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 6, 2017
Nasa is to wake up its New Horizons spacecraft next month following a five month hibernation, ahead of a journey deeper into one of the most mysterious regions of the Solar System.

By David Aragorn
Scientists measure brightness of the universe with NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 21, 2017
Images taken by NASA’s New Horizons mission on its way to Pluto, and now the Kuiper Belt, have given scientists an unexpected tool for measuring the brightness of all the galaxies in the universe, said a Rochester Institute of Technology researcher in a paper published this week in Nature Communications.

By David Aragorn
Does Pluto Have The Ingredients For Life?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 2, 2017
Pluto has long been viewed as a distant, cold and mostly dead world, but the first spacecraft to pass by it last year revealed many surprises about this distant dwarf planet.

By David Aragorn
NASA Mystery: Scientists Baffled By Pluto’s Intense X-Ray Emissions –“No Natural Means for Emitting Them”0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 14, 2017
Something very odd is going on around Pluto.

By David Aragorn
New Horizons Refines Course for Next Flyby 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 2, 2017
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft completed a short propulsive maneuver Wednesday to refine its track toward a New Year’s Day 2019 flyby past 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) some 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) from Earth.

By David Aragorn
New Horizons Data From Pluto Finally Arrives, And Astronomers Are ‘Putting A Bow Around It’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 27, 2017
NASA’s New Horizons space probe has been busy the past few years. After traveling roughly 4.67 billion miles to reach the dwarf planet Pluto’s system in July of 2015, the spacecraft is now moving on to its next target, an object discovered in the Kuiper Belt by the Hubble Space Telescope in June of 2014 and dubbed 2014 MU69.

By David Aragorn
Pluto’s ‘heart’ sheds light on a possible buried ocean 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 23, 2016
Ever since NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto last year, evidence has been mounting that the dwarf planet may have a liquid ocean beneath its icy shell.

By David Aragorn
Pluto: A Dwarf Planet Oddity (Infographic)0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 2, 2016
Pluto is a very strange world. With satellites like Charon and New Horizons, we have learned a little more about it.

By David Aragorn