Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth, the farthest object ever explored by a spacecraft, likely tastes sweet — and soapy.

It flew by Pluto and its moons in July 2015 and then by Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth in 2019. Since then ... by measuring their position when the Earth is on opposite sides of its orbit. A parsec (3.26 ...

Astrum explores everything NASA's New Horizons saw and discovered in the Kuiper Belt around Pluto, Charon and Arrokoth (Ultima Thule). Astrum. The Final Images We Will Ever See of Pluto and Arrokoth.

In 2006, NASA launched New Horizons to explore Pluto. In 2019, it visited the furthest object in the Solar System we have ...

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, which ...

Kuiper belt object Arrokoth’s ‘raspberry-like’ mounds are could rewrite our understanding of planetary formation.

A new paper presents findings about the Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth, ... these objects as "ice bombs," which activate and display cometary behavior upon altering their orbit closer to the ...

A paper recently accepted by Icarus presents findings about the Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth, shedding new light on the preservation of volatile substances like carbon monoxide (CO) in such ...

The color of Arrokoth’s icy surface is a key clue that it’s host to interesting chemistry. Frozen methanol has no color, says chemist Ralf Kaiser, lead investigator of the work. But after ...

The fringes of the solar system, beyond the orbit of the outermost known planet, Neptune, is a chaotic place. ... and thousands of smaller rocky and icy bodies like Arrokoth.

By then, the spacecraft had traveled about 960 miles, and the moonlet had moved in its orbit around Dinkinesh. ... Dwarf planet Arrokoth, out in the Kuiper Belt, ...