A new study from researchers at the Southwest Research Institute has unearthed a fascinating discovery about Arrokoth, a trans-Neptunian object made famous by the New Horizons probe on New Year ...

The small body visited by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on Jan. 1 is now officially known as Arrokoth. Hopefully you weren't too attached to "2014 MU69," because the most distant object ever ...

After its famous Pluto flyby, it traveled even farther to meet an object called Arrokoth. This mysterious Kuiper Belt object, discovered only after the probe was launched, revealed surprises that ...

A composite image based on data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft shows the icy Kuiper Belt object formerly known as 2014 MU69 or Ultima Thule, and now called Arrokoth. (NASA / SwRI / JHUAPL ...

The most distant object ever explored, since named Arrokoth, was a “planetesimal” lurking quietly in the outer solar system a billion miles past Pluto. The spacecraft beamed back images of ...

The New Horizons team announced yesterday that MU69’s official name would be “Arrokoth.” Folks, that’s a good name. You may know this rock as the oddly shaped object in the distant Kuiper ...

Prior research has suggested that Arrokoth was formed by the collision of two smaller objects. Additional data from New Horizons showed its surface is covered in frozen methanol.

That’s the conclusion according to a new study published May 1 in Icarus, which investigated the mysterious properties of deep-space bodies like the Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth ...

Experts in France and the US say a snowman-shaped space rock called Arrokoth, in the outskirts of our solar system beyond Pluto, is covered in sugars. These include glucose and ribose ...

Rather, Levison said the asteroid may resemble a bowling pin or even a snowman like Arrokoth, the Kuiper Belt object visited by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2019. The other possibility is ...