Science news articles about 'new horizons spacecraft'

... the rocky planet beginning in March 2011. The spacecraft will zip within 142 miles of the planet's ... system, a dust detector aboard the New Horizons spacecraft making its way to Pluto, and is leading a ...

... Magnetism, used images from the Voyager, Galileo, and New Horizons spacecraft to map several large arc ... imbalance, so the rotation axis reoriented to a new stable state.” Such a change is called “true ...

... data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft and two telescopes on or near Earth, an international team ... unknown -- the combined storm turned red. The new observations confirm that wind speeds in the LRS ...

The Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft crossed the orbit of Saturn on June 8.

Nine mementos are riding to Pluto aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

... spacecraft, which is targeting the ancient comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which will probe the atmospheric composition of Pluto and search for an atmosphere over its ...