NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.

When New Horizons does enter terminal shock, it will do so multiple times over several days, as the shockwave moves back and ...

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The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...

It's 1 billion miles beyond Pluto, which New Horizons visited in July 2015. The spacecraft phoned home at 10:39 a.m. EST, confirming it wasn't destroyed by the maneuver. This makes Ultima Thule ...

The spacecraft gathered several gigabytes of images and other data during the pass, according to NASA, but it will take several months to download the data completely. "New Horizons holds a dear ...

Two NASA spacecraft have teamed up to capture direct images of Uranus. The Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons Pluto probe formed a cool tag team to investigate the mysterious seventh ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope may have found signs of life on an alien planet, K2-18 b, identified by Earth ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made history once again, completing a daring mission encounter at 00:33 EST (0533 UTC) on 1 January 2019 when the spacecraft flew by Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69.

An curved arrow pointing right. The New Horizons spacecraft traveled more than 3 billion miles to reach Pluto. Scientists at NASA have used the mission data to create flyovers that are even closer ...