New Horizons passed within a few thousand miles of the oblong space rock known as Ultima Thule just after the calendar page turned to 2019 on the East Coast, and it’s a huge achievement for the ...

Ultima Thule is the most distant object to be explored by a spacecraft Scientists are getting closer to understanding how the distant object known as Ultima Thule came to be. Nasa's New Horizons ...

The small, icy world known as Ultima Thule has finally been revealed. A new picture returned from Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft shows it to be two objects joined together - to give a look like a ...

The purpose of the survey was to find an object worthy of study by New Horizons, and scientists know very little about it. Called a “relic” of the early Solar System, Ultima Thule is estimated ...

a smooshed-in cosmic snowman known as 2014 MU69 or Ultima Thule. New… Read More NASA’s New Horizons probe has already shown that its icy target, more than 4 billion miles away on the solar ...

Ultima Thule was first discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014, and now that the world has its first images of the space rock, Stern hopes this won’t be the end for New Horizons ...

New Horizons is the name of the spacecraft that flew by the cosmic body to survey it. NASA told AFP that Ultima Thule was only a nickname. JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a ...

LOS ANGELES: Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission on Wednesday released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored - the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, ...

(It's more commonly referred to as "Ultima Thule" - see the editor's note below.) Mu69 is about 4 billion miles from Earth and 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. New Horizons flew by the object on New ...

NASA’s New Horizons probe has measured the distance to nearby stars using a technique that’s as old as the ancient mariners, but from a vantage point those mariners could only… Read More The ...