Since traveling beyond Pluto's orbit, New Horizons has been able to conduct its first science mission: getting a look at 1994 JR1, a 90-mile-wide world in the Kuiper Belt. NASA released an image ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has captured the closest images of a small object in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune's orbit, mission team members say. New Horizons, which ...

New Horizons observed a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) on two separate occasions called 1994 JR1, which measures 145 kilometers (90 miles) across. KBOs are remnants of the early Solar System ...

Warming up for a possible extended mission as it speeds through deep space, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has now twice observed 1994 JR1, a 90-mile-wide (145 kilometers) Kuiper Belt object ...

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 ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of the Kuiper Belt object 1994 JR1 on Nov. 2, 2015. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has captured the closest images of a small object in the ...