Where is New Horizons right now?
New Horizons is currently about 9,684,345,023 kilometres from Earth, roughly 64.7 astronomical units, or 9.0 light-hours away. It is in the outer Kuiper Belt, well past Pluto and still inside the heliosphere.
For most of the past year New Horizons was asleep. It entered hibernation on 7 August 2025 and stayed under for 321 days, the longest stretch of the mission, running on a beacon and a stored command sequence. It woke itself on 23 June 2026 in good health, about 9.5 billion km from Earth. The confirmation took eight hours and fifty-two minutes to reach the control room.
It launched on 19 January 2006, reached Pluto on 14 July 2015, and passed the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth on 1 January 2019. No third flyby target has been found since, and the spacecraft is holding its remaining fuel in case one turns up.
What it does now is measure the medium it is travelling through: the dust and plasma of the outer heliosphere, and the ultraviolet glow of hydrogen at the edge of the Sun's influence, which nothing else currently working is far enough out to see properly. NASA has funded operations until it leaves the Kuiper Belt, expected around 2028 or 2029.
It sits beyond Pluto's orbit, which averages about 39 astronomical units, and rather less than half as far out as Voyager 1.