Finding the building blocks of life a billion miles beyond #Pluto, by Michael Summers: #UltimaThule #KuiperBelt #NewHorizons

A surprisingly gentle merger between two small primordial bodies formed the distant object Ultima Thule, a new study suggests. These two progenitors themselves likely coalesced from the same cloud of icy

The 2019 Northern Virginia Astronomy Club #AstronomyDay at C.M. #Crockett Park featured lectures about the #NASA #ParkerSolarProbe by Phillip Hess, the NASA #NewHorizons contact with #UltimaThule by Michael

Ultima Thule is lumpy, and scientists aren't sure why. Just after midnight on Jan. 1, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past Ultima Thule, a small, frigid object that lies about 1 billion miles (1.6

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Less than three months after the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past a distant, cold space rock, scientists are beginning to piece together the story of how that object, nicknamed

The best-ever photos of Ultima Thule have made it down to Earth, and they heighten the intrigue about the frigid and faraway world.

The final photos that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft snapped of Ultima Thule during the probe's epic Jan. 1 flyby reveal the distant object to be much flatter than scientists had thought.

Ultima Thule, Chang’e 4 & Chandrayaan 2 – 1-11-2019 Ultima Thule, the by now famous Kuiper Belt Object, has now been officially discovered and explored becoming the most distant object in space to

The New Horizons spacecraft fell silent Jan. 4, but the communications pause is expected, and scientists on the mission will have plenty of data to keep them busy during the intermission, mission staff

Die vorläufigen Bilder des Ultima Thule flyby vom Neujahrstag sind nun angekommen. Derzeit befindet sich die New Horizon Raumsonde hinter der Sonde und kann erst wieder Daten übermitteln, wenn die Erde

The most distant celestial object ever explored may well have moons, and astronomers are trying hard to find them.

The newest snowman-like image of Ultima Thule (2014 MU69), a pristine object from the dawn of the solar system, is already revealing insights into how planets form.

Scientists with NASA's New Horizons mission unveiled the first color photo of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule near the edge of the solar system. The new images reveal a strange object that was once

On Jan. 1, 2019, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will ring in the New Year by making history: the first flyby of an object in the Kuiper Belt in the extreme outer solar system. See our full coverage of

Heute gab es die ersten etwas detaillierten Bilder von Ultima Thule. Sie zeigen - aufgenommen aus rund 50 000 Kilometer Entfernung - zwei teilweise rötlich eingefärbte Klumpen aus Eis - wahrscheinlich

It was only 4 years ago that this object was discovered, originally named as 2014 MU69 but now nicknamed as Ultima Thule which came from Latin phrase which means "a place beyond the known world".

Ultima Thule, the weird Kuiper Belt object that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft visited in a historic flyby on Jan. 1, 2019, looks like a cosmic bowling pin, scientists say.

What a way to ring in the new year. As people around the world celebrated the start of 2019, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made history with the flyby of Ultima Thule, a mysterious object 4.1 billion

On Jan. 1, 2019, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will ring in the New Year by making history: the first flyby of an object in the Kuiper Belt in the extreme outer solar system. See our full coverage of

The latest New Horizons image of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule reveals its elongated shape.