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New Horizons just completed its first successful stellar navigation test in deep space, a groundbreaking moment for ...
While for most people Pluto is the most distant planet in the Solar System, things get a lot more fuzzy once you pass Neptune ...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully demonstrated a revolutionary method for deep space navigation, as the probe ...
By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...
“This pioneering interstellar navigation demonstration and its accompanying publication show that a deep-space mission can ...
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.
What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...
If New Horizons does survive its passage through the Pluto system, a pre-selected sample of encounter data will begin arriving at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory in ...
New Horizons' findings are taking center stage at an upcoming 10th anniversary of the Pluto flyby science meeting now being planned for this July at APL, which designed, built, and operates the ...
An artist's impression of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its 2019 encounter with Arrokoth, a Kuiper Belt object orbiting more than 1.5 billion kilometers past Pluto.
NASA's New Horizons probe flew by Pluto nearly eight years ago, but the epic encounter is still bearing scientific fruit. New Horizons gave humanity its first up-close looks at Pluto on July 14, 2015, ...
New Horizons gave humanity its first up-close looks at Pluto on July 14, 2015, when the probe zoomed just 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) above the dwarf planet's frigid surface.