Pluto may have been downgraded from full-planet status, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hold a special place in scientist's ...

LOS ANGELES: Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission on Wednesday released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored - the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, ...

According to NASA, on Oct. 1, 2024, New Horizons passed 60 times as far from the sun as Earth is. In 2019, it conducted a flyby of Arrokoth, a double-lobed asteroid in the Kuiper Belt leftover ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

Though technically not a planet, it has as rich geology as any of its planetary siblings in the solar system A color-enhanced photo of Pluto that was captured by the New Horizons spacecraft in ...

What's more, in the 1990s, astronomers discovered that Pluto was surrounded by a number of similarly sized objects; it ...

The Subaru Telescope has been conducting observations of the outer Solar System to help support NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, the first mission to observe the Kuiper Belt on the outer edge of the ...

However, its surface was only analyzed in detail in 2015, thanks to NASA's New Horizons mission ... Moreover, this moon has long been regarded as a key object for studying the Kuiper Belt. The ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...