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Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News Ultima Thule has a new mug shot. The closest-yet image of the ancient Kuiper Belt object, captured as the New Horizons spacecraft flew by January 1, shows a relatively smooth face unmarred by impact craters. “The thing is just not covered in

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News for Students On the far outskirts of the solar system lies a zone of very-distant objects revolving around our sun. It’s the Kuiper (KY-per) Belt. And this past New Year’s Day, a NASA spacecraft got a good snapshot of a snowman-shaped object there.

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News for Students WASHINGTON, D.C. – A months-long heat wave scorched the Tasman Sea near New Zealand. Six straight days of rain flooded Bangladesh. Extreme summer drought parched Montana and the Dakotas. All of these extreme weather events happened in

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News The results are in: Ultima Thule, the distant Kuiper Belt object that got a close visit from the New Horizons spacecraft on New Year’s Day, looks like two balls stuck together. “What you are seeing is the first contact binary ever explored by a

Author: Kyle Plantz / Source: Science News Half of the world’s annual rain and snow falls on the year’s 12 wettest days. As climate change brings more intense downpours, the same amount of precipitation could take just 11 days by the end of the century, scientists report online November 4 in