A snowman-shaped object that NASA probe New Horizons flew by in early 2019 now has a brand-new name. On November 12th, NASA officials announced that the item formerly known as MU69 would now have ...

A composite image based on data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft shows the icy Kuiper Belt object formerly known as 2014 MU69 or Ultima Thule, and now called Arrokoth.

The small body visited by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on Jan. 1 is now officially known as Arrokoth. Hopefully you weren't too attached to "2014 MU69," because the most distant object ever ...

A computer-generated reconstruction of Arrokoth’s shape makes it look like a squashed snowman, but slightly less squashed than originally thought. (NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI Image / Roman Tkachenko ...

When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, its next destination was something even more surprising—Arrokoth, a mysterious object in the Kuiper Belt. This video explores what makes ...

Arrokoth lies 4.1 billion miles (6.6 billion km) from Earth — about 1 billion miles (1.6 billion km) farther away than Pluto, which New Horizons cruised past in July 2015. You may like ...

NASA’s New Horizons mission is ... and then gently merged to create the 22-mile long object New Horizons observed,” NASA says. “This indicates Arrokoth formed during the gravity-driven ...

NASA has since renamed the object as Arrokoth, a Native American term meaning "sky" in the Powhatan/Algonquian language, after getting consent from elders in the Powhatan Tribe.

NASA’s New Horizons probe captured an image of Arrokoth earlier this year, as part of the farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft. Credit ...

Earlier this year , NASA’s New Horizons probe visited a very special space rock. It was a momentous occasion, especially since the rock turned out … ...

NASA's New Horizons mission visited the pancake-shaped Arrokoth in early 2019. Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET.