In the iconic opening sequence of the 1960s TV show "Star Trek," the viewer has this feeling of drifting through space, plunging through a field of stars. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "STAR TREK") WILLIAM ...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully demonstrated a revolutionary method for deep space navigation, as the probe ventured through the Kuiper Belt at a distance of more than 5.5 billion ...
As it hurtles out of our solar system, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is so far from Earth that the stars in the Milky Way appear in markedly different positions compared with our own view.