[Thursday, May 21, 2009] Things are going well out in the cold space between Saturn and Uranus where New Horizons is now. We're deep in planning for our spacecraft's annual checkout this summer, which begins on July 7.

[Monday, May 11, 2009] The team guiding the first mission to Pluto is fondly remembering Venetia Burney Phair, the "little girl" who named the ninth planet when it was discovered nearly 80 years ago. Mrs. Phair died April 30 at her home in Epsom, England, at age 90.

[Tuesday, March 24, 2009] 2009 - after 38 months and almost 2 billion kilometers of flight, New Horizons has completed precisely one-third of the days in its journey to Pluto.

[Wednesday, March 18, 2009] Add another moon to the New Horizons photo gallery: the spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager detected Triton, the largest of Neptune's 13 known moons, during the annual spacecraft checkout last fall.

[Thursday, March 5, 2009] Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have gained valuable new insights about the atmosphere of the dwarf planet Pluto.

[Monday, January 5, 2009] As the new year takes root, the New Horizons team is about to celebrate the third anniversary of our launch on January 19, 2006.

[Friday, December 19, 2008] After an intense annual checkout - more like a deep-space workout - New Horizons is getting some well-deserved rest.

[Monday, November 10, 2008] In a successful September demonstration of its growing capabilities, the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) detected transmissions from New Horizons while the spacecraft was more than a billion miles from home.

[Tuesday, October 14, 2008] It's hard to believe, but Oct. 15 will be the 1,000th day of flight for New Horizons. And in that time we've traveled so far that only four other spacecraft - Pioneers 10 and 11 and Voyagers 1 and 2 - have ventured farther.

[Saturday, September 20, 2008] The demotion of Pluto sparked considerable public controversy. Numerous planetary scientists and astronomers protested the IAU's definition as not useful, while numerous other planetary scientists and astronomers supported the outcome.

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