LAUREL, Md. — As NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zips past a small, distant icy world early on New Year’s Day, at 12:33 a.m. Eastern time, there will still be a nagging question for people working on ...

AIKEN – Savannah River Site’s HB Line and H Canyon facilities processed and produced plutonium (Pu)-238 oxide used to power the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s New Horizons space probe ...

Yesterday afternoon, NASA lost contact with its New Horizons spacecraft for an hour for reasons unknown. This is generally not a good thing when you’re working with technology that’s 4.5 light hours ...

The New Horizons space probe and it is currently way, way out in space. And recently it was tasked with measuring just how dark it is way out there in the black. I Sat Next To A Gun 'Fanatic' On A ...

The New Horizons team will have to wait 20 months for all of the spacecraft’s data and images to return to Earth, but here is what they’ve learned so far. What We've Learned About Ultima Thule From ...