The vehicle was built to drive six-tenths of a mile (1 km), but ended up covering 28 miles (45 km).
14 Feb 2019 11:09 AM
The liftoff is scheduled for 8:50 am Central time (1450 GMT) from a Texas launchpad.
23 Jan 2019 10:17 AM
Findings say that the rings developed soon after Saturn formed about 4.5 billion years ago.
19 Jan 2019 11:07 AM
Beginning around 2020, around 800 small satellites are expected to launch annually.
17 Jan 2019 10:07 AM
Boeing and NASA have been studying the concept plane for nearly a decade.
09 Jan 2019 11:29 AM
The piano-sized probe is travelling deep into the ring of celestial bodies known as the Kuiper Belt.
04 Jan 2019 6:32 PM
Ultima Thule's surface reflects light about as much as "garden variety dirt.”
03 Jan 2019 8:27 AM
The spacecraft will ping back more detailed images and data from Thule in the coming days.
02 Jan 2019 9:28 AM
Word of success came 10 hours after the middle-of-the-night encounter.
02 Jan 2019 8:15 AM
Word of success came 10 hours after the middle-of-the-night encounter.
02 Jan 2019 8:14 AM
The body is farther from Earth than any other that has had such a close encounter with a NASA probe, scientists believe.
01 Jan 2019 6:37 PM
At 12:33 a.m. Eastern time, the New Horizons probe will arrive at the “third zone” in the uncharted heart of the Kuiper Belt.
01 Jan 2019 1:38 PM
The US space agency will ring in the New Year with a live online broadcast to mark historic flyby of the mysterious object.
31 Dec 2018 1:37 PM
The spacecraft's closest approach to this primitive space rock comes January 1 at 12:33 am ET (0533 GMT).
29 Dec 2018 2:29 PM
NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor landed along with her German crewmate Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency.
21 Dec 2018 11:12 AM
Sunday’s launch was the second commercial launch for the New Zealand firm.
17 Dec 2018 8:54 AM
Officials said the crew - three US astronauts, two Russian cosmonauts and one German - were never in danger.
12 Dec 2018 3:45 PM
Curry is willing to take NASA up on its offer to tour its lunar lab in Houston.
12 Dec 2018 3:43 PM
The spacecraft is now beyond the outer boundary of the heliosphere, some 11 billion miles from earth.
11 Dec 2018 1:29 PM
Osiris-Rex hooked up last week with the asteroid Bennu, which is only about three blocks wide and weighs about 80 million tons.
11 Dec 2018 1:08 PM