"The New Horizons flyby of the Pluto system was fully successful, meeting and in many cases exceeding, the Pluto objectives set out for it by NASA and the National Academy of Sciences."

May 15, 2025 · In the fall of 2015, after its Pluto encounter, mission planners began to redirect New Horizons for a Jan. 1, 2019, flyby of 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt Object that is approximately 4 billion …

The 15 July 2015 flyby of Pluto was the culmination of a decades-long quest to see and understand the Solar System's most distant planet. But it turned out to be a new beginning, revealing for the first …

Jul 11, 2025 · As the spacecraft hurtles toward interstellar space, researchers are still analyzing the riches plumbed from the Pluto flyby and figuring out why and how the distant world is such a …

Jul 14, 2025 · Now, at the 10-year anniversary of the mission’s Pluto flyby, we mark a grimmer moment: the newly proposed budget for NASA would shut down New Horizons midflight.

10 years ago, on July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft completed a journey of over 3 billion miles, flying just 400 miles above Pluto’s surface — the closest any spacecraft has ever come...

New Horizons’ Pluto flyby required precise navigation and careful planning to address a range of challenges, and resulted in several key lessons learned. Early mission analyses revealed three key …

The spacecraft was successfully launched in January 2006, after a financial standoff with NASA and additional delays, and went on to perform the first ever flyby of the Pluto–Charon system in July 2015.

Oct 13, 2025 · The story of the New Horizon spacecraft's flyby at Pluto, what it discovered and best images from the encounter.

Jul 10, 2025 · After traveling billions of miles through the solar system, New Horizons sent home stunning images of Pluto and its moons, making headlines around the world. It took more than 15 …