Feature: NASA's New Horizons space probe
Four billion miles from Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft investigates Pluto and the furthest reaches of the solar system.
A massive region of planetesimal bodies called the Kuiper Belt circumscribes our solar system. Home to dwarf planets like Pluto, the belt also boasts thousands of small, planet-like objects which may date back to the beginnings of our own planetary system. On January 1, 2019, NASA’s New Horizons space probe completed a flyby of one of these objects, the most distant object in our solar system ever to be studied.
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