Related: New Horizons' Arrokoth flyby in pictures New Horizons found Arrokoth to be a suitably exotic denizen of this far-off realm, as the mission team reported last May in a study in the journal ...

Related: New Horizons' Arrokoth Flyby in Pictures Like the Powhatan people, New Horizons has strong ties to Maryland and the greater Chesapeake Bay region. The mission is run by The Johns Hopkins ...

A composite image based on data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft shows the icy Kuiper Belt object formerly known as 2014 MU69 or Ultima Thule, and now called Arrokoth. (NASA / SwRI / JHUAPL ...

At Arrokoth, we stumbled onto maybe the biggest prize of the entire New Horizons mission.” Through careful studies of Arrokoth’s shape, geology, color and composition—as well as ...

The spacecraft’s location in the solar system as of October 2022, far beyond Pluto and its second target, 2014 MU69 a.k.a. Arrokoth. New Horizons / JHU APL. “I am excited about how far out we ...

The science team behind NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft today released the first 3-D image of an icy object more than 4 billion miles from Earth, and the variations… Read More LAUREL ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past the snowman-shaped Arrokoth on New Year’s Day, 3 1/2 years after exploring Pluto. At the time, this small icy world 1 billion miles beyond Pluto was ...

Astrophysicist Simon Porter, who works for the New Horizons mission, tweeted: "This took far too long, but I am happy with the result. #Arrokoth!" Ocean McIntyre, a NASA science assistant ...

Each week the piano-sized New Horizons spacecraft transmits data stored on its digital recorders from its flight through the Pluto system on July 14. These latest pictures are part of a sequence ...

Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft, which has travelled three billion miles in nearly nine years in its journey to Pluto, is expected to start taking pictures of the dwarf planet from today.

The New Horizons spacecraft, launched in 2006, is now 60 times farther from the sun than Earth. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI illustration Zooming through the outer reaches of the solar system, A ...