New Horizons

Deep Space Network
Dwarf Planets
Missions
NASA Directorates
New Horizons
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
Pluto
Science Mission Directorate
The Kuiper Belt
The Solar System
Uncategorized
Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting science data gathered in the distant Kuiper Belt far beyond Pluto.
Posted July 7, 2026
New Horizons
Pluto
This image, taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015, is the most accurate natural color image of Pluto. This natural-color image results from refined calibration of data gathered by New Horizons’ color Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC).
Posted July 14, 2025
New Horizons
The Kuiper Belt
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. Speeding through the outer edges of the Kuiper Belt, almost 60 times farther […]
Posted February 20, 2024
New Horizons
Pluto
The Kuiper Belt
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.  While the science community is not currently aware of any re
Posted September 29, 2023
Sign up for our newsletter:

Categories

4
Io
5
17
1
27
1
29
202
113
67
4
14
2
6
209
6
11
1
2
1
3
2
13
1
10
50
1
4
14
12
159
20
3
3
14
14
1
30
3
16
46
1
6
10
3
3
4
2
1
2
2
7
3
1
5
1
279
233
6
1
10
1
7
361
10
21
1
1
3
1
9
1
38
1
1
386
62
658
1
1
13
17
6

Recent Posts

Newsletter Archive