NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object we’ve ever visited
22 December 2018
In 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft whizzed past Pluto. Now it is about to arrive at Ultima Thule, a tiny space rock 6.6 billion kilometres away from Earth
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