New Horizons project manager. Ultima Thule, at 4 billion miles (about 6.4 billion km) from the Sun and 1 billion miles (about 1.6 billion km) from Pluto, will be the most distant object ever directly ...

What should NASA explore next ... The now-operational New Frontiers missions include New Horizons, which began in 2006 and explored Pluto in 2015, Juno (2011), which studies Jupiter, and OSIRIS ...

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Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

The only Kuiper Belt objects that have been explored in detail are Pluto and the smaller object Arrokoth, which NASA's New Horizons mission visited in 2015 and 2019, respectively. New Horizons ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday ... cosmic time. NASA launched a new space telescope ...

Credit: NASA Most RTGs are built using plutonium ... The Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers and the New Horizons spacecraft that visited Pluto in 2015 have all used RTGs.

As the images came back from New Horizons in 2015 ... the distance between Earth and Pluto off the planet. It’s just been sitting in a drawer at NASA for half a century. Project Orion is ...

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