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Graphic illustration of large rocky objects like the ones found in the kuiper belt.
What is the Kuiper Belt?

By Robert Lea Last updated

Reference The Kuiper Belt lies on the edge of the solar system, beyond Neptune, away from the warmth of the sun. It's a cold donut-shaped region of icy objects.

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one of the hangars at spaceport Cornwall with large "spaceport Cornwall" letters across the front of the building above the entrance.
Spaceport Cornwall: The ultimate guide to the UK's first spaceport

By Ed Browne Published

Reference Spaceport Cornwall is the UK's first licensed spaceport. Here we explore the air-launch hub in more detail.

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New Horizons Set To Launch With Minimum Amount of Plutonium

By Brian Berger Last updated

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Pluto, as seen by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby of the dwarf planet in July 2015.
Far beyond Pluto: What's next for NASA's New Horizons probe?

By Leonard David Last updated

New Horizons is still on duty in extended mission mode, diving ever deeper into the Kuiper Belt to examine ancient, icy mini-worlds in that vast region beyond the orbit of Neptune.

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A composite image of the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth.
The icy 'space snowman' Arrokoth in deep space just got names for its best features

By Elizabeth Howell Published

The New Horizons team names point to three prominent features on the odd, binary world.

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water droplets
Water's ultimate freezing point just got lower

By Ashley Hamer Published

By creating ice from tiny droplets only a few hundred molecules in size, researchers have pushed water's freezing point lower than ever before and changed what we know about how ice forms.

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Artist's impression of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
New Horizons: Exploring Pluto and Beyond

By Elizabeth Howell Published

New Horizons was the first spacecraft to visit dwarf planet Pluto and Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth. The spacecraft is still actively exploring the solar system.

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The yellow arrow shows the trajectory of New Horizons over the surface of Pluto.
NASA celebrates New Horizons' historic Pluto flyby in 2015 with awesome new videos

By Tereza Pultarova Published

NASA has released new visualisations of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon Charon to commemorate the first-ever up close exploration of the distant worlds.

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Pluto's famous "heart," as seen by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its 2015 flyby of the dwarf planet.
NASA's New Horizons Pluto spacecraft is still exploring, 50 AU from the sun

By Mike Wall Published

New Horizons is about to reach some very rarefied space, but don't expect the NASA probe to rest on its considerable laurels.

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Rendering of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which will reach 50 AU (astronomical units), or 50 times the distance between Earth and the sun, on Saturday, April 17, 2021, a mile marker surpassed by only four other robotic probes in history. To celebrate the milestone, New Horizons pointed its camera out toward the direction of Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft (marked with a yellow circle).
NASA's New Horizons probe reaches rare distance, looks out to farthest Voyager

By Robert Z. Pearlman Last updated

Fifteen years after launching and six years after becoming the first probe to fly by Pluto, NASA's New Horizons is reaching 50 AU, a marker that has been passed only by four other spacecraft.

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