New Horizons - NASA Science
Jan 19, 2006 · New Horizons is a NASA mission to study the dwarf planet Pluto, its moons, and other objects in the Kuiper Belt, a region of the solar system that extends from about 30 AU, near the orbit of Neptune, to about 50 AU from the Sun.
New Horizons - Wikipedia
Some members of the New Horizons team, including Alan Stern, disagree with the IAU definition and still describe Pluto as the ninth planet. [38] Pluto's satellites Nix and Hydra also have a connection with the spacecraft: the first letters of their names (N …
Five Years after New Horizons’ Historic Flyby, Here Are 10 ... - NASA
Jul 14, 2020 · Five years ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history. After a voyage of nearly 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, the intrepid piano-sized probe flew within 7,800 miles of Pluto. For the first time ever, we saw the surface of this distant world in spectacular, colored detail.
15 Years Ago: New Horizons Launched to Pluto and Beyond
On July 14, 2015, the spacecraft zoomed through the Pluto system, taking hundreds of photographs and returning scientific information about the little-known planet, its atmosphere, and its moons. On New Year’s Day 2019, New Horizons flew by the Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth, at four billion miles away, the most distant encounter by any spacecraft.
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.
Exploring the Unexplored: New Horizons’ Mission to Pluto
Jul 1, 2015 · NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft soon will pass through the outer edges of the solar system. After a nine year and more than 3.6 billion mile trip, plans call for the probe to provide the first close up observations of Pluto and the most distant objects in the solar system.
Pluto: Exploration - Science@NASA
NASA's New Horizons was the first and, so far, the only mission to Pluto. It was also the first mission to explore the solar system's recently discovered "third zone," the region beyond the giant planets called the Kuiper Belt.
Pluto New Horizons – News and images from the Pluto New Horizons …
Dec 20, 2018 · Spend your New Year’s Eve with NASA, as New Horizons conducts the first close-up exploration of any Kuiper Belt object and the farthest exploration of any worlds in space ever attempted — more than 4 billion miles from Earth and a billion miles beyond Pluto!
Newly discovered 'kiss and capture' mechanism explains the …
1 day ago · This composite of enhanced color images of Pluto (lower right) and Charon (upper left), was taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it passed through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015. ... "Pluto and Charon are different – they're smaller, colder and made primarily of rock and ice. When we accounted for the actual strength of these ...
New Horizons: NASA's Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt | Space
Oct 20, 2021 · NASA's New Horizons became the first spacecraft to visit dwarf planet Pluto in July 2015. The far-traveling spacecraft also visited a distant Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule (2014 MU69) –...