A NASA parallax experiment involving New Horizons shows the probe now sees some stars in slightly different positions than we do on Earth, revealing just how far the spacecraft is from home. You can ...

Queen guitarist (and astrophysicist) Brian May, a member of the New Horizons science team, uses his patented OWL viewer to check out the stereo images of Proxima Centauri that he created by combining ...

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NASA's New Horizons was the first to closely explore Pluto and now the spacecraft has ventured deeper into space to snap images of 'an alien sky.' The craft traveled more than four billion miles from ...

The spacecraft examined the cosmos from well beyond Pluto, revealing a different view of the stars than we're used to seeing on Earth. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple ...

NASA's New Horizons has continued its pioneering survey of deep space to capture photographs that appear to show stars in positions alien to Earth-bound astronomers. The unmanned space probe has now ...

In 1838, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel won the race to measure the first distance to a star other than our Sun via the trigonometric parallax—setting the first scale of the universe. Astronomers from the U ...

NASA’s New Horizons probe has measured the distance to nearby stars using a technique that’s as old as the ancient mariners, but from a vantage point those mariners could only dream of. The experiment ...