The dwarf planet Pluto may have been New Horizons' main focus, but NASA's speedy little spacecraft didn't clock out after it flew by the Pluto system in July. New Horizons is already zipping ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...