New Horizons

Is the M5 cluster of stars really out there? Credit: HST, ESA, NASA

Of Small Steps and Giant Leaps of Collective Imagination

Vasudevan Mukunth 16/07/2015

The farther our gaze strays from home, the more...

The Kuiper belt is a busy place. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University APL/SRI/Alex Parker

NASA Mission Brings Pluto into Sharp Focus – but it’s Still Not a Planet

David Rothery 07/07/2015

Pluto was embraced as the solar system’s ninth planet...

In the New Horizons Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. Credit: NASA

[Updated] Probe Encounters Glitch 10 Days Ahead of Historic Rendezvous With Pluto

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/07/2015

The probe is transmitting telemetry signals that will help...

A GIF of Charon orbiting Pluto compiled using images taken by the New Horizons MVIC Color Imager between May 29 and June 3, 2015. Credit: NASA

Pluto-Bound Probe Takes First Colour Images of the Dwarf Planet and its Moon

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/06/2015

As New Horizons gets closer to Pluto, its images...