NASA Rings in New Year with Epic Ultima Thule Flyby 4 Billion Miles Away

Tuesday, January 1, 2019 - 01:00 in Astronomy & Space

What a way to ring in the new year. As people around the world celebrated the start of 2019, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made history with the flyby of Ultima Thule, a mysterious object 4.1 billion miles from Earth in the Kuiper Belt.

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