New Horizons took a look at a small Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) known as 2014 MU69 early this year. Now, NASA has announced that object has a new name. It's "Arrokoth," a Native American term that means ...

On06, NASA launched a spacecraft to Pluto! New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano, and it became the ...

The legendary New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the most detailed image yet of MU69 — the most distant object a human spacecraft has ever explored. At some four billion miles from Earth, and one ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The spacecraft that gave us the first close-up views of Pluto now has a much smaller object in its sights. NASA’s New Horizons fired its thrusters Thursday afternoon, putting it ...

Only hours from completing a historic flyby of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is on course and ready to gather scientific data on the small object ...

In late 2018, New Horizons will encounter a Kuiper Belt object known as MU69. It turns out this object could be two or even three distinct bodies. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

On January 19, 2006, NASA launched a spacecraft to Pluto! New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano, and it became the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto. It launched from Cape ...