New Horizons (spacecraft)
New Horizons is a NASA interplanetary probe launched on January 19, 2006, to perform the first close reconnaissance of Pluto and its moons and then explore the Kuiper Belt. It flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015, and Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth on January 1, 2019, returning transformative data on icy worlds at the solar system’s frontier. Since 2025 the active mission has emphasized heliophysics and dust science while continuing distant observations of Kuiper Belt objects.
