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Topic: New Horizons

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft launched atop its Titan/Centaur-6 launch vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex in Florida on September 5, 1977. (NASA)

Behind Voyager 1's near-death experience

Matthew Rozsa
An artist's impression of the Voyager 1 space probe flying past Saturn in the outer solar system, circa 1980. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

The oldest space probes that still work

Troy Farah
Painting depicting the new horizons space probe as it approaches Charon, Pluto's moon. Dated 2015. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How dark is outer space?

Briley Lewis - Massive Science
(NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP)

Is there life on Pluto?

Nicole Karlis
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The first color image of Ultima Thule, taken at a distance of 85,000 miles (137,000 kilometers) at 4:08 Universal Time on January 1, 2019, highlights its reddish surface. At left is an enhanced color image taken by the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), produced by combining the near infrared, red and blue channels. The center image taken by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) has a higher spatial resolution than MVIC by approximately a factor of five. At right, the color has been overlaid onto the LORRI image to show the color uniformity of the Ultima and Thule lobes. Note the reduced red coloring at the neck of the object. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute) (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)

First photos of Ultima Thule arrive

Nicole Karlis
FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006, file photo, an Atlas V rocket that carried the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto lifts off at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (AP Photo/Terry Renna, File) (AP)

Spacecraft to watch out for in 2019

Nicole Karlis
The New Horizons spacecraft is headed towards an object nicknamed "Ultima Thule" (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP)

What New Horizons will see next

Nicole Karlis
The New Horizons spacecraft is headed towards an object nicknamed "Ultima Thule" (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP)

Probing the history of the solar system

Nicole Karlis
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