607K views · 1K reactions | 5 years after its flyby of Pluto, NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s New Horizons spacecraft has provided the first close-up look at a small, cold primitive Kuiper Belt object known as Arrokoth, which reveals more on how such planetesimals were formed Read more in the Perspective from Science: https://fcld.ly/kdrpalt | Science | Facebook

Approaching an unexplored world! Our New Horizons spacecraft begins first stages of Pluto encounter. Details: http://go.nasa.gov/1weudb6 This silent animation follows the New Horizons as it leaves Earth after its January 2006 launch, through a gravity-assist flyby of Jupiter in February 2007, to the encounter with Pluto and its moons in summer 2015. | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

After our New Horizons' #PlutoFlyby, the spacecraft capture an image of Pluto revealing the dwarf planet's haze illuminated by the sun. It was beautiful, but also really puzzling. Watch 'Pluto in a Minute' and discover why. https://youtu.be/C3fniYbhTCk | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration