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 US space agency's New Horizons probe has made contact with Earth to confirm its successful flyby of the icy world known as Ultima Thule. The encounter occurred some 6.5bn km (4bn miles ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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. Help ensure Jewish news remains accessible to all.

(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 ...