An evocative new image sequence from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft offers a departing view of the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) nicknamed Ultima Thule — the target of its New Year’s 2019 flyby and the ...

The mission team called it a “stretch goal” — just before closest approach, precisely point the cameras on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to snap the sharpest possible pics of the Kuiper Belt object ...

The little piano-sized spacecraft made history in 2015 when it finished a nine-year journey that took it all the way to Pluto, becoming the first human-made object to encounter the dwarf planet. But, ...

For the New Horizons spacecraft mission scientists, it has been a whirlwind week of discoveries and new views of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule -- including the first 3D image of the object on ...

NASA's New Horizons is about to encounter the farthest object ever explored by a spacecraft — Ultima Thule. The frigid hunk of ice and rock is more than 4 billion miles (6.4 billion km) away, so far ...

LAUREL, Md. — Thirty-three minutes after midnight, scientists, engineers and well-wishers here at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory celebrated the moment that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft ...

We've seen a few images of this object from New Horizons, but the latest image is much sharper, revealing some fascinating features. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...

A.M. EST on Jan. 1, 2019 New Horizons made its closest approach to 2014 MU69, now named Arrokoth (though at the time, it had ...

The spacecraft has finally caught sight of its next scientific quarry: the most distant planetary body humanity has ever explored. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

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The new year on Earth began with a record-setting space mission 4 billion miles away -- a first look at an object on the edge of our solar system. Mission scientists from NASA and the Johns Hopkins ...

LAUREL, Md. — NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past Pluto in 2015, will zip past another icy world nicknamed Ultima Thule on New Year’s Day, gathering information on what is believed to be a ...