New Horizons Probe Achieves 6 Billion Mile Distance from Earth

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has reached a new milestone, now 6 billion miles from Earth, after emerging from a period of hibernation. The probe's latest measurements, published in The Astrophysical Journal, reveal that the solar wind gradually decelerates as it travels outwards, becoming significantly slower at this extreme distance due to interactions with interstellar atoms. This achievement continues its mission of exploring the outer reaches of our solar system.