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

Pluto’s moment in history has finally arrived: Ian Ziering tells of the ‘plight of Pluto’ and how the New Horizons July 14 flyby is about to change that. Watch: | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Over 100 images from NASA New Horizons mission, which flew within 7,800 miles (12,500 km) of the icy dwarf, were used to simulate the descent seen here. Credit NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration https://goo.gl/V6Kqyc | Space.com

5.1K views · 171 shares | Five years ago today, our New Horizons mission reached Pluto. The spacecraft revealed that what we once knew only as a tiny dot is a complex and beautiful world: solarsystem.nasa.gov/pluto | NASA Solar System Exploration | Facebook

A Kuiper Belt object, spotted by our Hubble Space Telescope and visited in a flyby by our New Horizons spacecraft was named this week. With consent from Powhatan Tribal elders and representatives, it is now officially known as "Arrokoth," a Native American term meaning “sky” in the Powhatan/Algonquian language. Watch: https://youtu.be/b9YcPB0qAig | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration