by Ben | Sep 30, 2023 | Press Releases
NASA has announced an updated plan to continue New Horizons’ mission of exploration of the outer solar system. Beginning in fiscal year 2025, New Horizons will focus on gathering unique heliophysics data, which can be readily obtained during an extended,...
by Ben | May 23, 2019 | Press Releases
SAPPORO, Japan, May 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Computer simulations provide compelling evidence that an insulating layer of gas hydrates could keep a subsurface ocean from freezing beneath Pluto’s icy exterior, according to a study published in the...
by Ben | Sep 18, 2018 | Press Releases
Members of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft team will host a Science Chat at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 19, on humanity’s farthest planetary flyby, scheduled to occur Jan. 1 when the spacecraft encounters a mysterious object in the Kuiper Belt nicknamed...
by Ben | Dec 20, 2017 | NASA
NASA will announce finalist concepts for a future robotic mission to explore the solar system during a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST Wednesday, Dec. 20. The mission, targeted to launch in the mid-2020s, would be the fourth in NASA’s New Frontiers portfolio – a...