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The future of New Horizons hangs in the balance as NASA seeks to fundamentally change the focus of the mission.

New Horizons is the first mission to the Kuiper Belt, a giant zone of icy bodies and mysterious small objects orbiting beyond Neptune. This region also known as the "Third" zone of our solar system, beyond the inner rocky planets and outer gas giants. John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, in Maryland, designed, built and operates the Bew Horizons space craft and manages the mission for NASA's Science Missions directorate in Washington. The Year of Pluto - NASA New Horizon is a one hour documentary that takes on the hard science and gives us the answers to how the m...

The returning OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to return samples from asteroid Bennu in September, but NASA is already running rehearsals to get it right.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took off from the asteroid Bennu on May 10, 2021. Here is how the space agency plans to have the spacecraft "drop a parcel" containing asteroid samples to Earth.

The Hayabusa2 mission to Ryugu found organic molecules on the asteroid, new research describes.