The spacecraft went on to visit other Kuiper Belt objects including Arrokoth, the icy 'space snowman'. NASA writes: "The Kuiper Belt is truly a frontier in space — it's a place we're still ...

snowman-shaped world that was visited by the New Horizons probe at the beginning of the year. Originally nicknamed Ultima Thule, NASA has now officially named this Kuiper belt object “Arrokoth.” ...

Related: Arrokoth the 'space snowman' and other Kuiper Belt objects may be packed with ancient ice Now, we may have some answers. A lab experiment that mimicked space radiation exposure ...

The trans-Neptunian object Arrokoth ... "How many of such 'flattened snowman' bodies are in the Kuiper Belt depends primarily on the probability of a body having a spin-axis inclination similar ...

(NASA / SwRI / JHUAPL Photo) The snowman-shaped object that NASA ... Arrokoth replaces earlier labels for the Kuiper Belt object, including the numerical designation 2014 MU69 and the nickname ...

Science) The space snowman known as 2014 MU69 or Ultima ... outward at nearly 33,000 mph and keeping its eye on more objects in the Kuiper Belt as it flies past at a distance.

The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A ...

This Jan. 1, 2019 image from NASA shows Arrokoth, the farthest, most primitive object in the Solar System ... of our solar system known as the the Kuiper Belt. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University ...

Ultima Thule actually looks a bit like a snowman, made of two spheres ... its gravity isn’t enough to affect the vast majority of Kuiper belt objects. Besides Pluto, the first of the Kuiper ...

NASA’s space snowman is revealing fresh secrets ... could be sent even deeper into the Kuiper Belt to check out other dwarf planets and objects, he said. David Jewitt of the University of ...

The discovery could also challenge our understanding of how Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs ... joins the dwarf planet Pluto and ...

NASA’s space snowman is revealing fresh secrets ... could be sent even deeper into the Kuiper Belt to check out other dwarf planets and objects, he said. The New Horizons scientists reported ...