The KBO formerly known as Ultima Thule (2014 MU69) has officially been named "Arrokoth", the traditional Powhatan-Algonquin language.
NASA's New Horizons mission taught us a lot about Pluto, the ice dwarf planet. But the spacecraft sped past Pluto…
Pluto was discovered in 1930 by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. For decades, not much detail was known about the erstwhile planet.…
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Pluto is getting some new names. In the past, prior to the New Horizons mission, there wasn't much to name.…
A new study led by Japanese researchers indicates that Pluto could have a subsurface ocean, provided there is an "insulating…
The New Horizons team has released new images that take advantage of the "binocular effect" to create 3D impressions of…
The latest images taken by New Horizons of Ultima Thule are the most detailed to date, and are providing new…
The latest images to come from the New Horizons mission show that Ultima Thule (the first KBO to be studied…
A newly-processed image of Ultima Thule provides the highest-resolution picture of the object to date.