Archive for the ‘Kuiper Belt’ Category

New Horizons Launched to Pluto and Beyond

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

New Horizons was successfully launched today from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA after previous delays due to high winds and power outages. A slight delay today because of high clouds preceded a [...]


New Horizons Rolls Out

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Update: Launch postponed to Wednesday, January 18, 2006 due to high winds.
New Horizons and the Atlas rocket on which it sits were rolled out to their launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in [...]


New Horizons Set for Launch

Monday, January 16th, 2006

The first spacecraft mission to the last of the original nine planets in our solar system is schedule for launch on Tuesday, January 17, 2006. New Horizons will begin its journey as the [...]


The Year in Planetary Science

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Humanity improves the vision it turns on the universe in two ways: seeing farther than before and resolving greater detail. 2005 was a year of much more detail, of blurry bodies resolving into [...]


New Planet Discovered in Our Solar System

Friday, July 29th, 2005

The discovery of a tenth planet orbiting our Sun was announced today by Dr. Michael E. Brown of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, USA. The planet is at least the [...]


Sedna in the Sky with Diamonds

Thursday, March 18th, 2004

Tenth planet? Oort cloud member? Planet-like? Just call it Sedna, the newly discovered furthest object in our solar system, second only to Mars in redness and estimated to be about three-fourths the [...]