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01 Jan 2019

NASA's New Horizons to flyby farthest world ever photographed on New Year's Da

The New Horizons flyby of Ultima Thule is expected to help scientists better understand what conditions were like when our solar system formed billions of years ago.

03 Oct 2018

Discovery of Goblin world can lead to mysterious Super-Earth outside solar sys

Super-Earth (Planet Nine) is a world '10 times the mass of Earth and 20 times farther from the sun than Neptune.'

09 Feb 2018

NASA's New Horizons creates history, captures farthest images by any spacecraft

The new images released by NASA on Thursday were captured by New Horizons when the spacecraft was more than 6.12 billion km away.

25 Jun 2017

Did a new planet just reveal itself? Scientists discover Mars-sized object at the edge of the solar system!

In other words, something unknown is warping the average orbital plane of the outer solar system.

19 May 2017

NASA's Hubble triumphs again, discovers moon orbiting solar system's third-largest dwarf planet!

The team uncovered the moon in archival images of 2007 OR10 taken by the Hubble Telescope.

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03 May 2017

NASA's flying obervatory 'SOFIA' reveals nearby planetary system is remarkably similar to our own

NASA's SOFIA, the world's largest airborne astronomical observatory, recently completed a detailed study of this nearby planetary system.

20 Jan 2017

Amazing NASA video offers a trip down onto the surface of Pluto - Watch

The video offers a trip down onto the surface of Pluto - starting with a distant view of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon - and leading up to an eventual ride in for a "landing" on the shoreline of Pluto's informally named Sputnik Planitia.

02 Jul 2016

After Pluto, New Horizons set to explore Kuiper Belt

The New Horizons mission team has received the green light to fly onward to an object deeper in the Kuiper Belt.

22 Jun 2016

Pluto may have liquid ocean under ice shell: Study

When New Horizons buzzed by Pluto last year, it unveiled clues that the dwarf planet might have - or had at one time - a sub-surface liquid ocean.

04 Apr 2016

Is 'Planet X' responsible for mass extinctions on Earth?

The yet undiscovered 'Planet X' may trigger comet showers linked to mass extinctions on our planet, say researchers.

20 Jan 2016

Good evidence for 9th planet in solar system: Scientists

Scientists reported today they finally have "good evidence" for Planet X, a true ninth planet on the fringes of our solar system. The gas giant is thought to be almost as big as Neptune and orbiting billions of miles beyond Neptune's path, distant enough to take 10,000 to 20,000 years to circle the sun.

04 Dec 2015

Incredible close-up image of wandering Kuiper Belt object from New Horizons' camera!

The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) instrument on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured four low-resolution images of 1994 JR1 object.

23 Oct 2015

NASA's New Horizons on new post-Pluto mission

The spacecraft that gave us the first close-up views of Pluto now has a much smaller object in its sights.

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