“Arrokoth” has Native American origins ... body responsible for keeping track of such things. As the first binary asteroid ever visited by a manmade spacecraft, it’s quite special, and ...

Asteroid 2006 WB will zoom by Earth on Tuesday, and astronomers say it’s one of nearly 40,000 near-Earth objects (NEO), which is not even the most exciting. Lowell Observatory astronomer and ...

Its shortest axis measures about 170 metres. The asteroid is likely to be egg-shaped or possibly dual-lobed, resembling Arrokoth, a small celestial body that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft ...

Prior research has suggested that Arrokoth was formed by the collision of two smaller objects. Additional data from New Horizons showed its surface is covered in frozen methanol.

Experts in France and the US say a snowman-shaped space rock called Arrokoth, in the outskirts of our solar system beyond Pluto, is covered in sugars. These include glucose and ribose – sugars ...