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.
Deep into the Kuiper Belt, New Horizons is still doing science
Dec 12, 2023 · The Kuiper Belt holds the key to a big puzzle. Why did all the planets accrete from clouds of interstellar dust and gas rather than just smashing into each other in mutual annihilation?...
New Horizons Team Discusses Discoveries from the Kuiper Belt
Mar 15, 2023 · New observations from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt – the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system populated by hundreds of thousands of icy, rocky planetary building blocks – might stretch much farther out than we thought.
NASA's New Horizons Discovered a Large Surprise in The Kuiper Belt
Feb 21, 2024 · Data from the New Horizons probe as it sails serenely through the Kuiper Belt hints at unexpected levels of particles where dust ought to be thinning out, suggesting the donut-shaped field extends significantly farther from the Sun than previous estimates suggest.
NASA’s New Horizons Team Publishes First Kuiper Belt Flyby …
May 16, 2019 · NASA’s New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever explored, a planetary building block and Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69.
Far, Far Away in the Sky: New Horizons Kuiper Belt Flyby Object ... - NASA
Nov 12, 2019 · Composite image of primordial contact binary Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 from New Horizons Spacecraft Data. In a fitting tribute to the farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft, the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 has been officially named Arrokoth, a Native American term meaning “sky” in the Powhatan/Algonquian language.
NASA’s New Horizons Detects Dusty Hints of Extended Kuiper Belt
Feb 20, 2024 · New observations from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt – the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system populated by hundreds of thousands of icy, rocky planetary building blocks – might stretch much farther out than we thought.
New Horizons Measurements Shed New Light on the Darkness of …
Aug 28, 2024 · Enter New Horizons, billions of miles along its trek beyond the planets, now deep in the Kuiper Belt and headed toward interstellar space. Late last summer, from a distance 57 times farther from the Sun than Earth, New Horizons scanned the universe with its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), collecting two-dozen separate imaging fields.
NASA's Hubble, New Horizons Team Up for a Simultaneous Look …
Oct 9, 2024 · Launched in January 2006, New Horizons made the historic flyby of Pluto and its moons in July 2015, before giving humankind its first close-up look at one of these planetary building block and Kuiper Belt object, Arrokoth, in January 2019. New Horizons is now in its second extended mission, studying distant Kuiper Belt objects, characterizing ...
Kuiper Belt: Exploration - NASA Science
Only one spacecraft has visited the Kuiper Belt. NASA’s New Horizons flew past Pluto in July 2015 – sending back the first clear, close-up images of the tiny world. On Jan. 1, 2019, the spacecraft flew by a Kuiper Belt object later named Arrokoth.