New Horizons Photo Reveals Peanut World Created by Cosmic Fender-Bender
3 Jan 2019, 12:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ultima Thule is a contact binary, looking as a conjoined celestial body comprised of two connected spheres 30 kilometers (19 miles) in diameter
New Horizons Spaceship Encounters Ultima Thule, the World Awaits Historic Photo
1 Jan 2019, 10:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ultima Thule, known to scientists as (486958) 2014 MU69, is the farthest natural object ever encountered in space by a human-built spacecraft
New Horizons Spaceship Nearing Unique Encounter with Ultima Thule on January 1
27 Dec 2018, 10:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The New Horizons spaceship, currently the second fastest human-made machine, is approaching the Ultima Thule object in the Kuiper Belt
NASA Reactivates New Horizons Probe for Ultima Thule Encounter
7 Jun 2018, 09:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA wakes the New Horizons probe to get it ready for the January encounter with a trans-Neptunian object called Ultima Thule.