However, to confirm this thesis, it is necessary to obtain further readings from New Horizons. Scientists continue to ...

Data from the New Horizons probe as it sails serenely through the Kuiper Belt hints at unexpected levels of particles where dust ought to be thinning out, suggesting the donut-shaped field extends ...

The moment Alan Stern (L) had confirmation that New Horizons had flown by the Kuiper Belt object "There was the prevailing theory from the late 1960s of violent collisions and a more recent ...

After visiting the Pluto-Charon system, New Horizons carried onward and flew past a Kuiper Belt object known as Arrokoth, which you can read about on NASA's website. Scott J. Kenyon and Benjamin C.

On this date, Jan. 19, 2006, the first probe ever destined to visit Pluto, its moons and other Kuiper belt objects launched from Launch Complex 41 at what is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

And in a way, he will too: Tucked aboard New Horizons is a small vial of Tombaugh’s ashes, a symbolic envoy that will sail by Pluto and head farther into the Kuiper belt, perhaps chasing down ...

Nov. 12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that ...

Behind the planets in the solar system is the Kuiper Belt. An inventory of similar structures around other stars shows how unusual it is.

NASA launched the New Horizons probe which would provide never-before-seen images of the dwarf planet, its moons and other objects.