In a statement, the space agency explained that on Jan. 1, 2019 the New Horizons spacecraft flew past an object in the Kuiper Belt, dubbed Arrokoth or 2014 MU69.

New Horizons Space Probe: What Surprised Scientists the Most About Pluto. First research paper from New Horizons flyby examines initial findings. By ABC News. October 16, 2015, 11:45 AM.

Enter New Horizons, billions of miles along its trek beyond the planets, now deep in the Kuiper Belt and headed toward interstellar space. Late last summer, from a distance 57 times farther from ...

The New Horizons spacecraft will continue sending down data for several months. The highest-resolution images captured, for example, have yet to make it back to Earth, Stern says.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reached a distance of 7,750 miles (12,500 kilometers) from Pluto’s surface during its July 14 closest approach, gathering so much data it will take almost ...

Read more about New Horizons' mission after leaving Pluto and other recent research based on Lyman-alpha emissions. You can also find the scientific paper describing the SwRI map and its findings ...

New Horizons is currently prepping for its visit to Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69, a roughly 30-kilometer-wide rock, and then it will continue toward the edge of the Solar System.

The New Horizons team described a wide range of findings about the Pluto system in its first research paper, published today. “The Pluto System: Initial Results from its Exploration by New Ho… ...

After nearly a decade of traveling through space, NASA's New Horizons probe is about to arrive at Pluto. On Tuesday it will begin an intensive, weeklong study of the distant world.

Before it leaves the solar system, though, New Horizons still has plenty of exploring to do. The spacecraft is going to fly near an object known as Ultima Thule —in the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto ...