As New Horizons and its scientists prepare for the end of a solar conjunction in two days and the resumption of science data downlink from the craft of its historic flyby of 2014 MU69 on New Year ...

Earth-based observations suggest the small icy world, referred to simply as MU69, has a moonlet. It seems New Horizons will now be making a two-for-the price-of-one flyby when it has its encounter ...

Here are some of the most interesting Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) New Horizons has discovered or studied: 1. Arrokoth (2014 MU69) Closest Flyby: After Pluto, New Horizons performed a historic close ...

New Horizons will be sending back repeat images ... Initially catalogued as (486958) 2014 MU69, it was given the more catchy nickname of Ultima Thule (Pronounced: Too-lee) after a public ...

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 ...

Researchers who work on NASA's nuclear-powered New Horizons mission released a movie on Tuesday showing the rotation of the mountain-size rock, which is known formally as (486958) 2014 MU69.

“The Pluto system data that New Horizons collected has amazed us over ... Its next destination is a distant object called 2014 MU69, and the probe’s scheduled arrival there is January 1 ...

NASA has a probe flying to a space rock with a really boring name, and it’s asking all of us to come up with something more interesting than “(486958) 2014 MU69.” This advertisement has ...

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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 ...