Kuiper Belt
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Before NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft completed its study of Pluto and continued on its way to the distant reaches of the Kuiper Belt, it took some parting images of Kerberos, Pluto’s smallest moon, completing a series of images of Pluto and its four other moons.
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NASA confirmed today that the New Horizons deep-space probe has successfully carried out the first of four course corrections for a possible rendezvous with a Kuiper Belt object.
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New Horizons isn't going to get much of a rest. Following its historic flyby of Pluto on July 14, NASA has selected the next potential destination for the unmanned spacecraft – a planetoid called 2014 MU69 that lies a billion miles beyond Pluto's orbit.
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After over nine years of travel, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is starting to provide hints of what its July flyby of Pluto will reveal. The unmanned probe sent back the clearest images yet of the dwarf planet, which have revealed light areas on the surface that show it may have polar caps.
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As NASA's New Horizons deep space probe heads for its July rendezvous with Pluto, it's not only revealing the secrets of the dwarf planet, but of its moons as well. On the 85th anniversary of Pluto's discovery, the unmanned spacecraft sent back its first look at the small moons Nix and Hydra.
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NASA's New Horizons deep space probe to Pluto and beyond has sent back its first images since waking up in December.
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The European Space Agency's (ESA) unmanned Rosetta probe orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is throwing new light on one of the fundamental questions in Earth's history – where did the oceans come from?
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Having traveled 2.9 billion miles from Earth, NASA's New Horizons deep space probe has woken itself up from hibernation mode as it begins preparations for its flyby of Pluto and its moons next July.
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With NASA'S New Horizons spacecraft scheduled to pass Pluto next year, the space agency has announced the discovery of three Kuiper Belt objects (KBO); one of which may be the unmanned probe’s next destination.
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As NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft races to its encounter with Pluto next year, the Hubble Space Telescope Time Allocation Committee have given its recommendation that the Hubble be used to find the Horizons’ next destination in the outer reaches of the Solar System.
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Scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science and the Gemini Observatory have reported the existence of a new member of our solar system. The distant dwarf planet, dubbed 2012 VP113, is believed to be one of thousands of distant objects that make up the hypothesized "inner Oort cloud."
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For the first time researchers have simulated images of sections of our Solar System as they may have appeared some 700 million years ago.
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