New Horizons

NASA's faraway space snowman Ultima Thule has a flat, not round, behind

The finding may spark new theories on how such primitive objects formed early in the solar system.

Light, camera, tumble! NASA releases film of space snowman captured by New Horizons

The small, icy rock is seen spinning like a propeller on its centre – like a tumbling snowman!

NASA New Horizons probe treks further on new hunt for moons after New Year flyby

Since its 2006 launch, the mission has studies Pluto, its five moons & hundreds of Kuiper Belt objects.

NASA New Horizons beams back 'snowman' visuals of Ultima Thule from New Years flyby

The images show that Ultima Thule has a similar shape to a bowling pin, spinning end-over-end.

NASA's New Horizons to fly into the New Year studying a distant rock beyond Pluto

New Horizons will fly-by of the farthest object ever studied by a spacecraft on New Years Day.

NASA's New Horizons to do historic New Years' flyby of farthest ever object studied

Plutonium-powered New Horizons was launched in 2006 and is a days away from flying by Ultima Thule.

NASA's Ralph to explore Jupiter's Trojan asteroids in 2021 aboard spacecraft Lucy

Ralph has made many discoveries since it first launched aboard the New Horizons spacecraft in 2006.

NASA's Voyager 2 probe could be finally be entering interstellar space

Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 probes are no longer functioning, but will eventually travel into interstellar space.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sets new record by capturing the farthest image from Earth by a spacecraft

The new images released by NASA on Thursday were captured by New Horizons when the spacecraft was more than 6.12 billion km away.

The next target of NASA's New Horizons mission, a Kuiper Belt Object named 2014 MU69 may have a tiny moon

Scientists were already excited to learn earlier this year that MU69 might be either peanut-shaped or even two objects orbiting one another.