NASA unveiled its first false-color, close up portrait of Pluto Friday afternoon. The findings reveal a surprisingly active world filled with glaciers of nitrogen and methane ice. Another image ...

On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft arrived at Pluto for the first time. The craft flew within 7,700 miles of the planet and is sending back reams of data and the highest resolution ...

It may look a little blurry, but the bright orange-tinted circle in the middle of the photo above is the first color image of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon. The image was taken by the Ralph color ...

Finally, a family portrait of Pluto is beginning to emerge! For the first time ever, astronomers have captured two never-before-photographed moons orbiting Pluto. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...

NASA has released a new video showing what it might be like to land on Pluto with a brand-new view of the dwarf planet's surface. The space agency’s New Horizons spacecraft spent about six weeks in a ...

NASA has released a map of Pluto's surface made from images recently taken by the New Horizons probe and it includes some quite mysterious features. Particularly notable is the lightened area shaped ...

On Friday, members of NASA’s New Horizons team giddily shared more stunning images of Pluto. One is a composite of four images that gives us, in true color, an extremely sharp view of the (maybe dwarf ...

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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft sent back the last images of Pluto and Arrokoth before leaving them behind forever. This film shows the final views of these distant worlds. Judge Delivers Final Blow to ...

(CNN) — A range of majestic mountains meets with endless plains. On Pluto, billions of miles from the sun’s reach, they are likely both made of ice. And this week, we are seeing close-ups of them with ...