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// 5 years ago
NASA renames Kuiper Belt rock after complaints about old name's Nazi ties
NASA scientists with the New Horizons team have renamed MU69, a Kuiper Belt asteroid. The space rock's new moniker is Arrokoth.
Science News
// 6 years ago
Ultima Thule is more pancake than snowman, NASA scientists discover
Ultima Thule is flatter than scientists originally thought.
Science News
// 6 years ago
Kilometer-sized Kuiper belt object provides missing link in planetary evolution
Astronomers have for the first time identified a kilometer-sized object at the edge of the solar system.
Science News
// 6 years ago
NASA's New Horizons shares clearest image yet of Ultima Thule
NASA has released the most high-resolution image of Ultima Thule captured by the space agency's New Horizons probe.
Science News
// 6 years ago
Ultima Thule is first contact binary to be explored by a spacecraft
New images and data returned by the New Horizons probe prove Ultima Thule is a snowman-shaped contact binary, the first to be explored by a spacecraft.
Science News
// 6 years ago
New Horizons travels 4 billion miles from Earth in farthest flyby ever
NASA's New Horizons probe rang in the new year by swinging by Ultima Thule, a small object in the Kuiper asteroid belt.
Science News
// 6 years ago
NASA's New Horizons poised for New Year's Kuiper Belt flyby
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is making its final approach to the Kuiper Belt, with plans to perform a historic flyby of Ultima Thule on New Year's Day.
Science News
// 8 years ago
New Horizons beams back last of the Pluto flyby data
This week, the last of the data collected and beamed back by the New Horizons probe was downloaded by engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
Science News
// 9 years ago
NASA releases new Pluto close-ups
On Friday, NASA released the clearest close-ups of Pluto yet. The high-resolution images were captured by the New Horizons probe during this summer's flyby.
Science News
// 9 years ago
NASA shares more Pluto images from New Horizons
The new images include additional close-ups of Pluto's rugged beauty -- the sphere's surface features revealed in new range and detail.
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