Our favorite outer solar system spacecraft is back on the job! New Horizons woke up from a five-month hibernation on its way to the distant world 2014 MU69. It’s still more than a year before the spacecraft gets to its next target, but it has a lot of work to do in the meantime. The … Continue reading New Horizons Wakes Up→
2015 MU69 Occults a Star On January 1, 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft is going to pass close to a Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69. Not much is known about this distant little world, so it’s important to know how big it is, whether it has companions or a debris field or even a … Continue reading New Horizons Team Does Science in the Shadow→