NASA probe to send data from Kuiper Belt to Earth from Jan 1
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will begin transmitting data from the Kuiper Belt, a zone of icy bodies and mysterious small objects orbiting beyond Neptune, on January 1, 2019. The spacecraft will encounter an object on the belt nicknamed 'Ultima Thule', which is over 6.4 billion kilometres from the Earth. New Horizons was assigned the Kuiper Belt mission in July 2016.