NASA’s New Horizons Pluto probe is getting some much-deserved rest. The spacecraft, which performed the first-ever flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015, entered hibernation Monday afternoon (April 10) for ...

After hibernating for much of the past seven years, the New Horizons spacecraft awoke today on Pluto’s doorstep. Near the margin of the observable solar system, the piano-size space probe is so far ...

Naps are empirically great. Sadly, our gig economy world frowns upon R&R; as an adult, it’s not socially acceptable to curl up and take a nap at work, no matter how tired or hungover or burdened with ...

Since I last wrote in mid-May, New Horizons has continued its traverse down the magnetotail of Jupiter. That final phase of our Jupiter flyby science will conclude tomorrow, on June 21. At that point, ...

NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is getting some much-deserved rest. The spacecraft, which performed the first-ever flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015, entered hibernation Monday afternoon (April 10) for ...