Ultima Thule

Guests congratulate New Horizons team members after they received signals from the New Horizons spacecraft that it is healthy and it collected data during the fly of Ultima Thule, at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, U.S., January 1, 2019. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls/Handout via REUTERS.

NASA Space Probe ‘Phones Home’ in Landmark Mission to Solar System’s Edge

Joey Roulette 02/01/2019

Launched in January 2006, NASA's New Horizons explorer embarked...

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From Volcanoes on Mars to Scarps on Mercury – How Places on Other Worlds Get Their Names

David Rothery 02/01/2019

Naming features on other worlds is a trickier issue...

FILE PHOTO: An artist's impression of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, currently en route to Pluto, is shown in this handout image provided by NASA/JHUAPL. Credit: REUTERS/NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Handout

NASA Probe Believed to Have Passed Distant Space Rock on Landmark Mission

Joey Roulette 01/01/2019

The body is farther from Earth than any other...

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The Major Indian and International Space Missions to Look Out for in 2019

Jatan Mehta 01/01/2019

2018 was an incredible year for spaceflight with over...

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After Another Year, Finding Solace in Our Subjective Experience of Time

Vasudevan Mukunth 31/12/2018

Of what value is an 8 am on a...

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Why NASA Chose Senegal to Find out More About an Asteroid in Outerspace

David Baratoux 14/09/2018

Senegal has made great strides in astronomy and planetary...