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...]
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