NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is probably best known for the high resolution photos of Pluto that it took back in 2015. But on January 1, New Horizons will fly past an object even more distant than ...

In 1992, astronomers David Jewitt and Jane Luu discovered the first Kuiper Belt object (KBO), providing the context for Clyde Tombaugh’s planet Pluto. Scientists soon discovered dozens, then hundreds, ...

Ultima Thule is one of the solar system’s most hermitlike homebodies. In the 4.6 billion years since the small icy world formed, astronomers think that it has never moved from its original orbit about ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. LAUREL, Md. — NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has completed its epic flyby of the most distant ...

NASA just released the best images yet of Ultima Thule, the most distant world ever visited by a spacecraft. You'll want to grab your 3D glasses if you've got 'em—we're going stereoscopic. New ...

Following its historic visit to Pluto, New Horizons has spent the past four years heading to a distant place only discovered in 2014: Ultima Thule. On New Year’s Day, it flew past that object and took ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. LAUREL, Md. — Wow, what a way to ring in the new year. As the world celebrated the start of 2019, ...

Ultima Thule is the most distant object to be explored by a spacecraft Scientists are getting closer to understanding how the distant object known as Ultima Thule came to be. Nasa's New Horizons ...

Some images are truly one in a million, and this latest effort from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is certainly no exception. It shows the object 2014 MU69, also known as Ultima Thule, in glorious ...

Scientists from the New Horizons mission presented their latest findings about the small distant object visited by the NASA spacecraft at the start of the year. By Kenneth Chang HOUSTON — To Kirby ...