NASA goes where no ship has gone before

US space agency will photograph the farthest and oldest cosmic body to date

TAMPA - A NASA spaceship is zooming toward the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever photographed by humankind, a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule about 6.4 billion kilometers away.

The US space agency will ring in the New Year with a live online broadcast to mark historic flyby of the mysterious object in a dark and frigid region of space known as the Kuiper Belt at 05:33 GMT on Tuesday.