NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up Nearly 6 Billion Miles from Earth After Almost a Year in Hibernation
NEED TO KNOW The spacecraft emerged from a 321-day hibernation 5.9 billion miles from Earth, with signals taking…
Pluto flyby mission wakes up after long sleep nearly 6 billion miles from Earth
A groundbreaking mission that explored Pluto and distant solar system objects in unprecedented detail has awakened from its…
NASA’s New Horizons Wakes Up From Hibernation Beyond Pluto, More Than 10 Billion Kilometers from Earth
Artist’s rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto and its three moons. Credit: NASA. Whomst has awakened…
New Horizons Wakes Up, Prepares for ‘Termination Shock’
NASA’s Pluto probe has woken up and is on its way to slipping out of the sun’s…
Scientists Discover Weird Structure in Outer Solar System
Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy…
A Hidden Earth-Size World Could Lurk Far Closer Than ‘Planet Nine’
A newly discovered warp in the outer Solar System may have been created by a small, rocky world,…
A Mysterious Warp at the Edge of the Solar System May Point to the Existence of a Hidden “Planet Y”
A strange tilt in the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt has scientists wondering if the solar system…
Scientists think they found evidence of a hidden planet beyond Neptune and they are calling it Planet Y
The Kuiper Belt is home to rocky, icy bodies left over from the formation of the solar system.…
Is ‘Oumuamua a piece of ancient solar system? Scientists think it came from ‘exo-Pluto’
1I/’Oumuamua, the first interstellar object to visit our solar system in 2017, belongs to a completely new class…
Is There Actually A Ninth Planet In Our Solar System? Here’s What We Know
On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn’t by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by…