solar system
- NASA's New Horizons spacecraft successfully captured images and data as it flew past an object nicknamed Ultima Thule early Tuesday morning, scientists confirmed. But they won't get their first close-up glimpse of the edge of the solar system until Wednesday afternoon.
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After Pluto, Hopkins-led New Horizons mission nears an object 'beyond the known world,' Ultima Thule
Three and a half years after exploring Pluto, the New Horizons mission will reach another new frontier in the first hours of 2019. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory-led mission will fly past a Kuiper Belt object known as Ultima Thule, a pristine remnant of the early universe. - A new analysis by University of Maryland, Baltimore County scientists reveals that the moon's Orientale basin is more than just a big hole.
- NASA's Juno mission will give scientists their first close-up look of Jupiter's auroras and the clouds of energetic particles swirling around it.
- NASA's New Horizons is headed for 2014 MU69, a small and mysterious object at the edge of the solar system, in a proposed extended mission to follow its successful Pluto fly-by.
- Humankind took one step further into space when New Horizons made its closest visit to Pluto, the last major body in the solar system to be explored.
- With Tuesday's Pluto flyby, the United States will have visited every planet and dwarf planet in our solar system, a remarkable accomplishment that no other nation can match.
- As NASA's New Horizons mission nears an encounter with Pluto, scientists are getting one never-before-seen look of the dwarf planet after another.
- NASA's Messenger mission to Mercury will crash in March, but Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab scientists are collecting valuable detailed data as the spacecraft nears the planet's surface.