New Horizons

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has woken up from hibernation to prepare for a historic New Year's Day flyby.

German mathematician Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss used math to find the lost dwarf planet Ceres, and a Google Doodle commemorates what would have been his 241st birthday.

The New Horizons spacecraft's next flyby target now has a nickname befitting the object's exotic nature and locale.

If you needed another reminder that a historic deep-space encounter is just around the corner, well, here you go.

New Horizons, which famously zoomed past Pluto in July 2015, is set to cruise by a small object called 2014 MU69 in the wee hours of Jan. 1, 2019.

One or more moons may be orbiting New Horizon's next target, the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69.

You have the chance to hang a nickname on the small, distant object that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will zoom past on Jan. 1, 2019.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is zooming through the outer solar system with its eyes open once again.