Outer solar system
News about outer solar system facts, outer solar system program, solar system planets, solar system planets information. Jovian Gas Giant planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune search for exoplanets using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope and Hubble on The Kuiper Belt.
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Sep 30, 2018NASA's New Horizons science team recently wrapped up a three-day rehearsal of the busiest days around the mission's Dec. 31- Jan. 1 flyby of Ultima Thule, a Kuiper Belt object orbiting a billion miles beyond Pluto. -
Aug 29, 2018NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has made its first detection of its next flyby target, the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, more than four months ahead of its New Year's 2019 close encounter. -
Apr 25, 2018Even after decades of observations and a visit by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, Uranus held on to one critical secret -- the composition of its clouds. -
Feb 18, 2018What’s the next stop for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft? Jim Green finds out as he talks to the mission’s Principal Investigator, Alan Stern. -
Feb 17, 2018What’s the next stop for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft? Jim Green finds out as he talks to the mission’s Principal Investigator, Alan Stern. -
Feb 15, 2018Three billion miles away on the farthest known major planet in our solar system, an ominous, dark storm is shrinking out of existence as seen in pictures of Neptune taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. -
Feb 11, 2018NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image – and made history. -
Feb 9, 2018NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, talks to NASA Goddard’s Amy Simon, who studies the outer planets Uranus and Neptune. -
Feb 8, 2018NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, talks to NASA Goddard’s Amy Simon, who studies the outer planets Uranus and Neptune. -
Dec 4, 2017Heat generated by the gravitational pull of moons formed from massive collisions could extend the lifetimes of liquid water oceans beneath the surface of large icy worlds in our outer solar system.
