Saturn's moon Phoebe, thought to be a captured KBO, and perhaps analogous to 1994 JR1. ... The orbit of the KBO 1994 JR1, shown with other Solar System bodies, made with NASA's JPL Small-Body ...

NASA identified the object as 1994 JR1. ... That means it stays fairly close to Pluto, but doesn't actually orbit the dwarf planet like a moon. Rather, it orbits the sun.

NASA released an image of 1994 JR1, taken by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager from a distance of 69 million miles — the closest look yet at the Kuiper Belt object.

Spaced an hour apart, the images show the 90 mile (150 km)-wide KBO known as 1994 JR1 sailing through the void against a background of stars some 3.3 billion miles (5.3 billion km) from the Sun.

New Horizons, which performed history's first flyby of Pluto this past July, took four photos of a 90-mile-wide (150 kilometers) Kuiper Belt object called 1994 JR1 on Nov. 2, from a distance of ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of the Kuiper Belt object 1994 JR1 on Nov. 2, 2015. NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI. By TIME Staff. December 8, 2015 8:48 AM EST.

New Horizons traveled over 3 billion miles and almost 10 years until it finally reached Pluto. If you think that's impressive, get ready for the spacecraft's next target. New Horizons is going ...

After the New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flyby of Pluto in July 2015, the plan was always to send it further out of the Solar System to study other objects. Now, the spacecraft has ...

It's called "1994 JR1" and it's part of a whole class of icy bodies called Kuiper Belt objects, or KBOs. Some astronomers describe KBOs as time capsules because they're frozen remnants of the very ...

New Horizons traveled over 3 billion miles and almost 10 years until it finally reached Pluto. If you think that's impressive, get ready for the spacecraft's next target. New Horizons is going even ...