NASA’s New Horizons probe, which made history last summer with its flyby of dwarf planet Pluto, was given the green light to travel deeper into the Kuiper Belt and explore another Kuiper Belt object, dubbed 2014 MU69. The tiny probe is expected to reach MU69 in early January 2019. NASA also announced that Dawn spacecraft will stay put on its orbit around dwarf planet Ceres as plans for it to … [Read more...]
NASA Probe Passes Neptune on its Way to Pluto
After being in space for the last eight years, (ever since it left Earth’s orbit), the NASA New Horizons Probe has been passing by new and exciting worlds. Now, the probe reached Neptune’s orbit, on a speedy course to Pluto and its moon, Charon. The New Horizons probe will give humanity new information about the dwarf planet which is no longer a member of the sun’s family. The probe is … [Read more...]
New dwarf planet discovered beyond Kuiper belt
Astronauts have found a new dwarf planet far beyond the orbit of Pluto. The Carnegie Institution for Science in a report said that Carnegie’s Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory detailed the discovery of a distant dwarf planet. The plant is called 2012 VP113 or “Biden”. This is because of the VP in the planet’s name, which was found beyond the known edge of the Solar … [Read more...]
