After the New Horizons probe captured historic close-up shots of the surface of Pluto this summer, NASA's far-reaching spacecraft is headed towards its next target.

The next mission on the horizon for NASA's New Horizons probe after its flyby of Pluto will be an object that's rather less-ceremoniously called 2014 MU69, according to BBC News.

NASA has yet to lock that mission down, and the latest idea for New Horizons is currently under review before official approval extends New Horizons' space exploration horizon.

That's okay though, because there's plenty of time for even a government bureaucracy to decide what's next. The object is reportedly about 1.5 billion kilometers away from Pluto.

Assuming the plan to probe 2014 MU69 is approved, New Horizons will carry out a series of engine burns around October or November of this year to adjust its course toward the comet-like object, which makes up a small part of the Kuiper Belt.

The Kuiper Belt is a remote region in the outer Solar System where large objects like 2014 MU69 exist in a deep freeze. Looking at the ancient frozen object will be like a window into what our relatively-local area in the universe looked like around the time it formed, about 4.6 billion years ago, BBC reports. In fact, 2014 MU69 is an example of the kind of space bodies that became building blocks for larger orbiting objects like Pluto.

But don't get too excited about getting a peak at the frozen mass -- which measures about 45 kilometers from one end to the other -- anytime soon. After New Horizons changes course, there will a lot more waiting for NASA exploration fans, who made the historic Pluto pictures viral when New Horizons began beaming them back and NASA began posting them to its website this summer.

If all goes according to plan, New Horizons is expected to reach the Kuiper Belt and that intriguing snowball of cosmic history, 2014 MU69, by January 2019.