NASA – a US government organization that controls space travel and the scientific study of space.

New Horizons – an interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program.

Pluto – a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt.

the Kupier belt – a circumstellar disc in the Solar System beyond the known planets, extending from the orbit of Neptune to approximately 50?astronomical units from the Sun.

Johannesburg – the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

Homo naledi – an extinct species of hominids, which anthropologists first described in 2015 and have assigned to the genus Homo.

Kepler-452b – an exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star Kepler-452 about 1,400 light-years (430 pc) from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.It is the first potentially rocky super-Earth[4] planet discovered orbiting within the habitable zone of a star very similar to the Sun.

Cygnus – a northern constellation lying on the plane of the Milky Way, deriving its name from the Latinized Greek word for swan.

Teixobactin – a new antibiotic that can kill serious infections without encountering any detectable resistance, offering a potential new way to get ahead of dangerous evolving superbugs.

Roger Shawyer – a British inventor who first developed the EmDrive.

EmDrive – a controversial proposed type of electromagnetic thruster where an anisotropic electromagnetic field inside the microwave cavity produces thrust.

Alpha Centauri – the closest star system to the Solar System.