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Pluto revealed: 5 years ago, NASA's New Horizons gave us our first close look at this distant world
By Mike Wall last updated
Five years ago today, we started to appreciate just how remarkable Pluto really is.
Pluto flyby photos: New Horizons mission leader Alan Stern reveals 10 of his favorite epic views
By Mike Wall last updated
New Horizons' epic Pluto encounter took place five years ago. Celebrate the anniversary with a look at some of the probe's most dramatic and intriguing photos.
'Looking at an alien sky': New Horizons probe sees shifted star positions (photos)
By Mike Wall last updated
NASA's pioneering New Horizons spacecraft has traveled so far that its view of the cosmos is noticeably different than ours.
One Year Ago, NASA's New Horizons Made the Most Distant Flyby in Space History
By Nola Taylor Tillman published
A year after New Horizons buzzed its second target, Arrokoth, a wealth of science has been revealed.
Meet Arrokoth: Ultima Thule, the Most Distant Object Ever Explored, Has a New Name
By Mike Wall published
Hopefully you weren't too attached to "2014 MU69," because the most distant object ever explored has a new name.
Long After Historic Flybys, NASA's New Horizons Is Still Pioneering Science in the Kuiper Belt
By Meghan Bartels published
New Horizons made an epic flyby of a Kuiper Belt object to ring in the New Year — but scientists need brand-new observations to truly understand that data.
A Gentle Kiss: How the Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule Was Born
By Mike Wall published
A surprisingly gentle merger between two small primordial bodies formed the distant object Ultima Thule, a new study suggests.
Ultima Thule's Mystery Mounds Puzzle Scientists
By Mike Wall published
Ultima Thule is lumpy, and scientists aren't sure why.
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