Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of a double-headed gray rock with a diagram on the right that shows its composition. The Kuiper Belt object named "486958 ...

Arrokoth has a geometric albedo of p_V = 0.21_ (-0.04)^ (+0.05) at a wavelength of 550 nm and ~0.24 at 610 nm. Arrokoth’s geometric albedo is greater than the median but consistent with a distribution ...

Researchers found that the double-lobed object, which is officially named Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth and resembles a snowman, may have ancient ices stored deep within it from when the object ...

A new paper presents findings about the Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth, shedding new light on the preservation of volatile substances like carbon monoxide in such distant celestial bodies. The ...

Primitive ices and gas from the earliest days of the solar system can remain trapped inside deep-space objects like comets and Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) for billions of years. That’s the conclusion ...

The small Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth, encountered by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on Jan 1 2019, is so far the most distant and most primitive object ever explored by a spacecraft. The ...

Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast SDF Number 292 Issued at 2200Z on 19 Oct 2023 Chandra X-ray Observatory X_Ray View Of The Galactic Center Want the latest space news?

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 Belt we ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new study is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about distant objects in the far reaches of the solar system, starting with an object called the space ...