LAUREL, Md. — Thirty-three minutes after midnight, scientists, engineers and well-wishers here at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory celebrated the moment that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft ...
[caption id="attachment_131844" align="aligncenter" width="792"] UPDATED Jan. 1 — Just over 24 hours before its closest approach to Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule ...
HOUSTON—NASA’s New Horizons mission team greeted the first signals on Jan. 1, confirming their spacecraft had successfully carried out its preprogrammed close flyby of Ultima Thule, the most distant ...
The new year on Earth began with a record-setting space mission 4 billion miles away -- a first look at an object on the edge of our solar system. Mission scientists from NASA and the Johns Hopkins ...
NASA counted down Monday to a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind -- a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule -- in the hopes of ...
Ultima is located a billion miles beyond Pluto in the Kuiper Belt, a region beyond Neptune home to countless icy asteroids. In medieval times, "Ultima Thule" referred to any far away place beyond the ...
Now scientists await a bounty of new data about the small, mysterious icy body, the most distant object ever visited. By Kenneth Chang The probe that visited Pluto will study a mysterious icy world ...
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