NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has made a trek to the far reaches of our solar system, zooming past icy Ultima Thule at 32,000 miles per hour in the early hours of New Year's Day. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPNew Horizons zipped past Ultima Thule more than three years after its brush with Pluto. The celebration occurred in the midst of a partial government shutdown, which closed much of NASA's public outreach for the Ultima Thule flyby. "To me, this milestone for New Horizons is full of everything that NASA and NASA science is about." "Reaching Ultima Thule from 4 billion miles away is an incredible achievement.

Source: Fox News January 01, 2019 17:28 UTC