Topic: Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons mission gets a brand-new name “Arrokoth”
The International Astronomical Union and Minor Planets Center, the global body for naming Kuiper Belt objects, has finally given a name for the most distant world ever explored... NASA renames faraway ice world Ultima Thule to ‘Arrokoth’
Ultima Thule, the farthest cosmic body ever visited by a spacecraft, has been renamed Arrokoth, or “sky” in the Native American Powhatan language, following a backlash over the...
NASA: finds Evidence of Water on Ultima Thule
(486958) 2014 MU69, also known as Ultima Thule, is a small, distant celestial object located in the Kuiper Belt, a region of the solar system beyond Neptune that...
NASA's New Horizon spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule
The New Horizon Spacecraft has flown past Ultima Thule, a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt. This marks a new beginning in the era of exploration from...Farout most-distant object ever spotted in our solar system
An international team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant object ever spotted in our solar system. It’s provisional designation is ‘2018 VG18’ & nicknamed as “Farout” for its...
