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NASA Renames Faraway Ice World "Arrokoth" After Nazi Controversy
Ultima Thule, the farthest cosmic body ever visited by a spacecraft, has been officially renamed Arrokoth, or "sky" in the Native American Powhatan and Algonquian languages, following a significant backlash over the old name's Nazi connotations.
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NASA's New Horizons Probe Treks Deeper on Hunt for Moons After Historic Flyby
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft set off on a new hunt for moons in the solar system's most distant edge, searching for clues on our solar family's creation, scientists said on Thursday.
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NASA's Pic Of Snowman-Shaped Ultima Thule Inspires Hilarious Memes, Jokes
NASA's space probe managed to come within 3,540 km of Ultima Thule - a small, icy world which lies at a distance of 6.5 billion km from earth.
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NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Sends Back First Images of Ultima Thule, Looks Like a 'Snowman'
The first detailed images beamed back from the NASA's New Horizons mission allowed scientists to confidently determine the body was formed when two spheres, or "lobes".
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NASA Releases Up-Close Images Of "Snowman"-Shaped Ultima Thule
The most distant object ever explored by spacecraft is a reddish, snowman-shape rock 4 billion miles from Earth.
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'We Have A Healthy Spacecraft': NASA Completes Flyby Of Faraway World
NASA rang in the New Year today with a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind -- a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule -- in the hopes of learning more about how planets took shape.
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NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Just Visited the Most Distant Object Ever Explored
A NASA spacecraft is believed to have reached the solar system's outermost region, flying close to a space rock 20 miles long and billions of miles from Earth.
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NASA Spaceship Zooms Towards Furthest Object Humans Have Ever Explored
NASA is counting down to a historic flyby of the farthest cosmic body ever explored by humankind - a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule.
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NASA Spacecraft Flies By Furthest Object Humans Have Ever Explored
A NASA spacecraft on Tuesday flew past the most distant world ever studied by humankind, Ultima Thule, a frozen relic of the early solar system that could reveal how planets formed.
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This Spacecraft Is En Route To Furthest Object Humans Have Ever Explored
The nerdiest New Year's party in the solar system is happening 4 billion miles from Earth, where a lone, intrepid explorer is en route to the furthest object humans have ever explored.
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NASA's New Horizons to Fly Past Ultima Thule Tonight, Here's How to Watch
To ancient explorers, "Ultima Thule" was what lay past the northernmost edges of maps, beyond the borders of the known world.
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NASA Has A New Year's Date With A Distant Space Rock: Here's How To Watch
When NASA chose a target for its New Horizons spacecraft that was farther than anything explored before, "Ultima Thule" seemed a fitting moniker. The far-flung space rock is an inhabitant of the Kuiper Belt, the ring of debris that encircles the icy outer reaches of solar system.
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NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft to Reach Ultima Thule on New Year's Day
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will zip past the scrawny, icy object nicknamed Ultima Thule (TOO-lee) soon after the stroke of midnight.
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NASA Space Probe Detects An 'Icy' Anomaly. Billion Kilometres Past Pluto
Just days ahead of its New Year's 2019 close encounter, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has detected an anomaly related to its next flyby target -- an icy world a billion kilometres past Pluto and more than 6.5 billion km from Earth.
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NASA Renames Faraway Ice World "Arrokoth" After Nazi Controversy
Ultima Thule, the farthest cosmic body ever visited by a spacecraft, has been officially renamed Arrokoth, or "sky" in the Native American Powhatan and Algonquian languages, following a significant backlash over the old name's Nazi connotations.
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NASA's New Horizons Probe Treks Deeper on Hunt for Moons After Historic Flyby
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft set off on a new hunt for moons in the solar system's most distant edge, searching for clues on our solar family's creation, scientists said on Thursday.
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NASA's Pic Of Snowman-Shaped Ultima Thule Inspires Hilarious Memes, Jokes
NASA's space probe managed to come within 3,540 km of Ultima Thule - a small, icy world which lies at a distance of 6.5 billion km from earth.
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NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Sends Back First Images of Ultima Thule, Looks Like a 'Snowman'
The first detailed images beamed back from the NASA's New Horizons mission allowed scientists to confidently determine the body was formed when two spheres, or "lobes".
-
NASA Releases Up-Close Images Of "Snowman"-Shaped Ultima Thule
The most distant object ever explored by spacecraft is a reddish, snowman-shape rock 4 billion miles from Earth.
-
'We Have A Healthy Spacecraft': NASA Completes Flyby Of Faraway World
NASA rang in the New Year today with a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind -- a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule -- in the hopes of learning more about how planets took shape.
-
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Just Visited the Most Distant Object Ever Explored
A NASA spacecraft is believed to have reached the solar system's outermost region, flying close to a space rock 20 miles long and billions of miles from Earth.
-
NASA Spaceship Zooms Towards Furthest Object Humans Have Ever Explored
NASA is counting down to a historic flyby of the farthest cosmic body ever explored by humankind - a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule.
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NASA Spacecraft Flies By Furthest Object Humans Have Ever Explored
A NASA spacecraft on Tuesday flew past the most distant world ever studied by humankind, Ultima Thule, a frozen relic of the early solar system that could reveal how planets formed.
-
This Spacecraft Is En Route To Furthest Object Humans Have Ever Explored
The nerdiest New Year's party in the solar system is happening 4 billion miles from Earth, where a lone, intrepid explorer is en route to the furthest object humans have ever explored.
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NASA's New Horizons to Fly Past Ultima Thule Tonight, Here's How to Watch
To ancient explorers, "Ultima Thule" was what lay past the northernmost edges of maps, beyond the borders of the known world.
-
NASA Has A New Year's Date With A Distant Space Rock: Here's How To Watch
When NASA chose a target for its New Horizons spacecraft that was farther than anything explored before, "Ultima Thule" seemed a fitting moniker. The far-flung space rock is an inhabitant of the Kuiper Belt, the ring of debris that encircles the icy outer reaches of solar system.
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NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft to Reach Ultima Thule on New Year's Day
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will zip past the scrawny, icy object nicknamed Ultima Thule (TOO-lee) soon after the stroke of midnight.
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NASA Space Probe Detects An 'Icy' Anomaly. Billion Kilometres Past Pluto
Just days ahead of its New Year's 2019 close encounter, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has detected an anomaly related to its next flyby target -- an icy world a billion kilometres past Pluto and more than 6.5 billion km from Earth.
