But investigating 2014 MU69 during the flyby was not as easy as it was with Pluto ... and Oort Cloud Objects well beyond 2014 MU69’s orbital boundary. More so, the New Horizons team itself ...

A NASA supercomputer has discovered more about what's known as the mysterious Oort cloud. The strange shell of icy objects sits at ... its appearance using a new supercomputer.

Perhaps these objects had their orbits around the sun disturbed by Jupiter—similar to how NASA spacecraft bound for ...

Caption The orbits of the new extreme dwarf planet 2015 TG387 and its fellow Inner Oort Cloud objects 2012 VP113 and Sedna as compared with the rest of the Solar System. 2015 TG387 was nicknamed ...

We know about Pluto. But we don’t really know it. That will change on July 14, when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft ... which meant the object was small—much too small to account for the ...

New research may shine a light on part of outer space's great mysteries: the Oort Cloud. The Oort Cloud is the name given to a theorized group of potentially trillions of icy objects on the edge ...

In July, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time. The photos the craft sent back so far have astounded researchers. New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says ...

Scientists just flew NASA's nuclear-powered New Horizons probe past a mysterious, mountain-size rock beyond the orbit of Pluto. The object - called Ultima Thule (pronounced "tool-ee") - is located ...

a New Horizons co-investigator, said during an American Museum of Natural History webcast on Tuesday. "But forget it. It's too small an object that's too far away." The first images of Pluto might ...

After almost a decade in space, the New Horizons probe's close encounter with Pluto lasted just six days as it hurtled past at nearly 50,000 kilometres an hour. I was lucky enough to witness ...