NASA spacecraft has roamed billions of miles — but hasn’t reached the ‘edge’

NASA spacecraft has roamed billions of miles — but hasn’t reached the ‘edge’

Zooming through the outer reaches of the solar system, A NASA spacecraft just clocked a distance 60 times farther from the sun than Earth. The extraordinary benchmark announced this week means the New Horizons probe has doubled its 2015 distance, when it was snapping pictures of Pluto and its moons.  Perhaps more surprising than this…