A team of space scientists and chemists at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Université Côte d'Azur and the Southwest Research Institute has found the planetesimal Arrokoth likely gets its red color ...

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Planetary Scientist and Associate Vice President Dr. Alan Stern posits that the large, approximately 5-kilometer-long mounds that dominate the ...

A new study from researchers at the Southwest Research Institute has unearthed a fascinating discovery about Arrokoth, a trans-Neptunian object made famous by the New Horizons probe on New Year’s Day ...

Snapshots from numerical simulation of shape evolution of Arrokoth's analogue due to sublimation driven mass loss. The bottom most shape is a digital terrain model derived from New Horizon ...

A peculiar peanut-shaped object in the Kuiper Belt, Arrokoth, has intrigued astronomers since NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft visited it in 2019. The latest study offers a new understanding of how this ...

Scientists have long known many objects floating at the solar system's outer edges resemble snowmen, but the reasons why were never clear. Now, a student at Michigan State University has created the ...

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Planetary Scientist and Associate Vice President Dr. Alan Stern posits that the large, approximately 5-kilometer-long mounds that dominate the ...

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A new study posits that the large, approximately 5-kilometer-long mounds that dominate the appearance of the larger lobe of the pristine Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth are similar enough to suggest a ...

The large mound structures that dominate one of the lobes of the Kuiper belt object Arrokoth are similar enough to suggest a common origin, according to a new study led by Southwest Research Institute ...