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This artists illustration obtained from NASA on December 21, 2018 shows the New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69 nicknamed Ultima Thule a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one billion miles beyond Pluto. (Photo: AFP)

After historic flyby, New Horizons probe treks deeper on hunt for...

The piano-sized probe is travelling deep into the ring of celestial bodies known as the Kuiper Belt.

4 Jan 2019 6:32 PM IST

Scientists had not discovered Ultima Thule when the probe was launched. (Photo: SpaceNews)

NASA says faraway world Ultima Thule shaped like 'snowman'

Ultima Thule's surface reflects light about as much as "garden variety dirt.

3 Jan 2019 8:27 AM IST

Scientists had not discovered Ultima Thule when the probe was launched. (Photo: SpaceNews)

NASA probe believed to have passed distant space rock on landmark...

The body is farther from Earth than any other that has had such a close encounter with a NASA probe, scientists believe.

1 Jan 2019 6:37 PM IST

Scientists had not discovered Ultima Thule when the probe was launched. (Photo: NASA)

NASA probe nears distant space rock for landmark flyby

At 12:33 a.m. Eastern time, the New Horizons probe will arrive at the third zone in the uncharted heart of the Kuiper...

1 Jan 2019 1:38 PM IST

This artists illustration obtained from NASA on December 21, 2018 shows the New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69 nicknamed Ultima Thule a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one billion miles beyond Pluto. (Photo: AFP)

NASA spaceship zooms toward farthest world ever photographed

The US space agency will ring in the New Year with a live online broadcast to mark historic flyby of the mysterious...

31 Dec 2018 1:37 PM IST