Overview
On 1 January 2019, Nasa's New Horizons probe notched up another historic first: the first ever Kuiper belt fly-by. Its target was 2014 MU69, a chunk of ice and rock about four billion miles (approximately 6.4 billion kilometres) from Earth, dubbed Ultima Thule, a Latin phrase meaning a distant, unknown region. It is the most distant fly-by in history, and it is believed the data New Horizons gathers will shed new light on the solar system's early days. Chris Lintott reports from the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland to bring the latest news and pictures from this extraordinary mission.
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2019 - 1Beyond Pluto January 13, 2019 -
2019 - 2Is Cosmology in Crisis? February 10, 2019
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2019 - 3Marsquake! April 14, 2019
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2019 - 4Supermassive Black Hole May 12, 2019
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2019 - 5Return to the Moon June 09, 2019
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2019 - 6The Moon, the Mission and the BBC July 14, 2019
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2019 - 7Space Mission Special August 11, 2019
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2019 - 8Alien Worlds September 08, 2019
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2019 - 9Question Time October 13, 2019
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2019 - 10Rosetta: The Comet's Tale November 10, 2019
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2019 - 11Review of the Year December 08, 2019