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Video: Alice Bowman, New Horizons mission operations manager, previews Ultima Thule flyby (members only)
New Horizons's mission operations manager Alice Bowman previews the spacecraft's New Year's Day encounter with Ultima Thule in the Kuiper Belt, a distant zone of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune.
VideoLive coverage: New Horizons flyby target comes into focus
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made a historic New Year's encounter with an object nicknamed Ultima Thule in the Kuiper Belt a billion miles beyond Pluto. The NASA space probe passed Ultima Thule at a distance of around 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) at 12:33 a.m. EST (0533 GMT) on Jan. 1, making it the most distant planetary body ever explored up close.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft heads for New Year’s encounter with distant world
Three years and a billion miles past Pluto, NASA's New Horizons probe is on the verge of at least one more pioneering, once-in-a-lifetime milestone: a New Year's Day flyby of a small body known as 2014 MU69, unofficially dubbed Ultima Thule -- "beyond the known world" -- in a NASA naming contest.
Crew of three safely lands in Kazakhstan after 197-day space mission
A Russian cosmonaut, a German flight engineer and a NASA astronaut undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth overnight Wednesday, landing on the snowy steppe of Kazakhstan to wrap up a six-month mission.
Station crew set for overnight landing in Kazakhstan
Eight days after a dramatic spacewalk to inspect the site of a leak in the hull of his Soyuz ferry ship, Russian commander Sergey Prokopyev, German flight engineer Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor geared up to depart the International Space Station Wednesday for a fiery plunge back to Earth.
SpaceX makes another space station cargo delivery
A commercial supply ship owned and operated by SpaceX arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, delivering a pair of NASA experiments to demonstrate satellite refueling techniques and monitor changes in Earth's forests, along with a special holiday menu of turkey, candied yams, cranberry sauce and shortbread cookies.
SpaceX Falcon 9 boosts Dragon cargo ship to orbit, first stage misses landing target
Two days after a successful launch from California, SpaceX fired off another Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Wednesday, this one carrying a Dragon cargo ship loaded with 5,660 pounds of equipment and supplies bound for the International Space Station.
Launch timeline for SpaceX’s 16th resupply launch to the space station
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will go from Cape Canaveral to low Earth orbit in less than 10 minutes Wednesday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying more than 5,600 pounds of supplies and experiments.
Video: Pre-launch briefings for SpaceX’s next space station resupply mission
Two panels of managers and scientists presented details of SpaceX's 16th operational resupply flight to the International Space Station on the eve of its launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral.
Photos: Falcon 9 poised for launch at pad 40
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket was poised for launch Wednesday at Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad carrying more than 5,600 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station.