Sedna will reach its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, providing an exploration opportunity we won’t get for another ...

Three new full-dome movies will highlight the July schedule at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium.

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

Our solar system is a pretty wild place, full of amazing stuff. From the giant Sun to the tiny rocks floating around, there’s ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled so far from Earth that the relative position of the stars is beginning to shift — a fact that could help future spacecraft navigate the galaxy on their own.

And Back - The Super Soldiers Defending the Kuiper Belt On April 7, 2016, the team running NASA’s New Horizons mission were waiting nervously. The spacecraft was about to enter the outermost reaches ...

They were also not the first missions to carry a message intended for extraterrestrial beings should they reach interstellar ...

A hard-driving space probe is still cruising beyond Pluto, its instruments healthy and its fuel tanks half full. Yet a single ...

The Kuiper Belt, a vast region beyond Neptune, has long been a source of intrigue for astronomers and space enthusiasts. Known for its collection of icy bodies and dwarf planets, this distant area of ...

That changed when NASA’s New Horizons team detected 11 new objects lurking from 60 to 80 AU. What was thought to be empty space turned out to be a gap between the first ring of Kuiper Belt ...

NASA's New Horizons mission team believed their spacecraft would have reached the outer edge of the solar system's so-called Kuiper Belt by now.

In 2023, about a dozen large objects that lie beyond 60 AU—nearly as far from Pluto as Pluto is from the Sun were discovered. New Horizons is at 57 AU continues to streak beyond the edge of the known ...