Experimental Propulsion Tech Could Reach Mysterious Planet Beyond Pluto in 10 Years Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid ...

For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) is playing a critical role in the historic flyby of Pluto and its five known moons with NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which has traveled nearly three billion ...

The propulsion system would shorten the probe’s travel time to Pluto and would enable it to explore other objects beyond Pluto after its mission there concludes.

New Horizons rocketed past the Pluto system in 2015, which is now technically considered part of the Kuiper Belt. The mission collected data on the dwarf planet and its unique moon, Charon.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA spacecraft that explored Pluto has spotted its next target on the outskirts of our solar system. NASA this week revealed pictures taken by New Horizons earlier this ...

One billion miles beyond Pluto and an astounding 4 billion miles from Earth (1.6 billion kilometers and 6.4 billion kilometers), Ultima Thule will be the farthest world ever explored by humankind.

Since traveling beyond Pluto's orbit, New Horizons has been able to conduct its first science mission: getting a look at 1994 JR1, a 90-mile-wide world in the Kuiper Belt.

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Pluto and Beyond The New Horizons spacecraft zooms toward an object 4 billion miles from Earth. Premiered: 1/3/19 Runtime: 53 : 36 Topic: Space + Flight Space & Flight NOVA ...

A GIANT flexible solar panel that is unfurled into space like a carpet could one day make long-haul space flight possible without using nuclear propulsion. Space scientist Rudolf Meyer at the ...

On this date, Jan. 19, 2006, the first probe ever destined to visit Pluto, its moons and other Kuiper belt objects launched from Launch Complex 41 at what is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.