NASA scientists expected something strange when they planned a mission beyond Pluto - but Arrokoth exceeded all predictions. This object, discovered after New Horizons launched, turned out to be a ...

NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is gearing up to cross the "termination shock," an exotic boundary in the outer solar system, as early as 2027.

New Horizons is now in its second extended mission, imaging distant Kuiper Belt objects, characterizing the outer heliosphere of the sun, and making important astrophysical observations from its ...

The New Horizons mission, which previously captured stunning images of Pluto, made a historic flyby of Arrokoth on January 1, 2019.

Artist's impression of the New Horizons spacecraft at Arrokoth. This astronomical body is the most distant object visited by human spacecraft, with the flyby of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...

"Similarities including in sizes and other properties of Arrokoth's mound structures suggest new insights into its formation," Stern, the Principal Investigator of the New Horizons mission, said.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made a close flyby of Arrokoth in 2019. From those data, Stern and his coauthors identified 12 mounds on Arrokoth’s larger lobe, Wenu, which are almost the same ...

NASA will extend the New Horizons spacecraft through late this decade to support “multidisciplinary” science that could include another Kuiper Belt object flyby.

NASA has already scheduled 2024 as the final year for the New Horizons missions. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, renowned for its exploration of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth, may soon ...

With its budget being trimmed for 2024, NASA is making some weighty decisions... and one includes drastically trimming New Horizons funds by replacing the current science staff with a new team.

The spacecraft got up close and personal with an object known as Arrokoth (previously called Ultima Thule) on New Year's Day 2019.

Following the Pluto flyby, mission scientists found another object for New Horizons to visit: Arrokoth. The trans-Neptunian Kuiper belt object turned out to be a pleasant surprise, since it turned ...