New Horizons - NASA Science
Jan 19, 2006 · NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was the first spacecraft to explore Pluto up close, flying by the dwarf planet and its moons on July 14, 2015. In early 2019, New Horizons flew past its second major science target – Arrokoth (2014 MU69), the most distant object ever explored up close.
New Horizons - Wikipedia
New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. [5]
NASA New Horizons to Continue Exploring Outer Solar System
Sep 29, 2023 · NASA has announced an updated plan to continue New Horizons’ mission of exploration of the outer solar system. Beginning in fiscal year 2025, New Horizons will focus on gathering unique heliophysics data, which can be readily obtained during an extended, low-activity mode of operations.
New Horizons | Discoveries & Facts | Britannica
Nov 8, 2024 · New Horizons, U.S. space probe that flew by the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in July 2015. It was the first space probe to visit Pluto. After its flyby of Pluto, New Horizons flew by another Kuiper belt object, Arrokoth, on January 1, 2019.
15 Years Ago: New Horizons Launched to Pluto and Beyond
Jan 20, 2021 · As New Horizons left Jupiter, its trajectory took it down the long tail of the planet’s active magnetosphere. The spacecraft made unique observations as it traveled for 100 million miles down Jupiter’s magnetotail. Left: New Horizons image of the plume from Tvashtar, a volcano erupting on the Jovian moon Io, taken from 1.5 million miles away.
NASA’s New Horizons Reaches a Rare Space Milestone
Apr 15, 2021 · As New Horizons crossed the solar system, and its distance from Earth jumped from millions to billions of miles, that time between contacts grew from a few minutes to several hours. And on April 17 at 12:42 UTC (or April 17 at 8:42 a.m. EDT), New Horizons will reach a rare deep-space milepost — 50 astronomical units from the Sun, or 50 times ...
New Horizons: Exploring Pluto and Beyond - Space.com
Oct 20, 2021 · New Horizons was the first spacecraft to visit dwarf planet Pluto and Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth. The spacecraft is still actively exploring the solar system.
New Horizons - TheSkyLive
Jan 20, 2006 · New Horizons is a NASA space probe launched in January 2006 with the mission to explore the dwarf planet Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the outermost region of the Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Where is the New Horizons Spacecraft right now? - The Planets …
Beginning in fiscal year 2025, New Horizons will focus on specific heliophysics data, as stated by NASA in September 2023. It will remain available for a flyby of a different target until it leaves the Kuiper belt in 2028 or 2029, at which point NASA may decide to shutdown the mission.
New Horizons - NASA+
New Horizons – Summiting the Solar System: Part 2 On January 1, 2019, Ultima Thule, an object in the Kuiper Belt 4 billion miles from Earth, will be the most ancient and most distant world ever explored close-up.