New Horizons - NASA Science
WEBJan 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
WEBNew Horizons is the first mission in NASA's New Frontiers mission category, larger and more expensive than the Discovery missions but smaller than the missions of the Flagship
New Horizons | Discoveries & Facts | Britannica
WEB6 days ago · 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.
NASA New Horizons to Continue Exploring Outer Solar System
WEBSep 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.
NASA's Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic ...
WEBJul 14, 2015 · After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.
New Horizons Stories - NASA Science
WEBNASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history by returning the first close-up images of Pluto and its moons. Now, through a series of clever methods, researchers led by Tod Lauer of the National Science Foundation’s National …
NASA New Horizons - YouTube
WEBNASA's New Horizons mission is designed to help us understand worlds at the edge of our solar system by making the first reconnaissance of Pluto and Charon - a "double planet" and the last...