In July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft revealed Pluto in stunning detail during its historic flyby. The images showed an icy world with mountains, plains, and complex terrain, proving Pluto is far more active and diverse than scientists expected. | SpaceEve

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

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