How a space snowman called Arrokoth is shedding new light on planetary origins The space snowman that was the focus of a close encounter with NASA’s New Horizons probe last year is helping… Read More
‘Ultima Thule’ no more: New Horizons’ space snowman is named Arrokoth The snowman-shaped object that NASA’s New Horizons probe flew past nearly a year ago on the solar system’s icy fringe… Read More
New Horizons’ far-out findings from solar system’s Kuiper Belt turn into a cover story The space snowman known as 2014 MU69 or Ultima Thule added to its celebrity today by showing up on the… Read More
Ultimate Ultima: New Horizons team shares sharpest view of space snowman The scientists behind NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have released the sharpest possible view of the mission’s latest target, a smooshed-in… Read More
New Horizons probe sends a sharper view of space snowman … with a bashed-in face NASA’s New Horizons probe has already shown that its icy target, more than 4 billion miles away on the solar… Read More
New Horizons probe delivers 3-D views of cosmic snowman, plus mysteries to solve LAUREL, Md. — The science team behind NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft today released the first 3-D image of an icy object… Read More
NASA’s New Horizons probe reveals the shape of its icy target: ‘It’s a snowman!’ LAUREL, Md. — The New Horizons spacecraft’s picture of an icy object 4 billion miles from Earth became a lot… Read More
New Horizons team celebrates history’s farthest flyby with New Year’s sparkle LAUREL, Md. — Hundreds of well-wishers took part in a different kind of New Year’s countdown, 33 minutes past midnight,… Read More
Queen’s rock-star astrophysicist Brian May debuts his space anthem for a far-out trip LAUREL, Md. — After you’ve participated in NASA’s New Horizons mission to the edge of the solar system, and written… Read More
New Horizons team gets first fuzzy glimpse of elongated icy world on solar system’s edge LAUREL, Md. — The science team for NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft released its first multi-pixel view of an icy world… Read More
Watch New Horizons probe ring in the New Year with record-setting Ultima Thule flyby LAUREL, Md. — The sleeping bags are rolled out and the videos are cued up for a New Year’s celebration of… Read More
Year in Space: From the Falcon Heavy’s first flight to the solar system’s last frontier Launches, launches, launches! 2018 was a big year for liftoffs, particularly for SpaceX and its billionaire CEO, Elon Musk. The… Read More
12 years after launch, New Horizons probe zeroes in on mysterious Ultima Thule Act Two of the 12-year-old New Horizons mission to Pluto and the solar system’s icy Kuiper Belt is heating up, with… Read More
