NASA explains Pluto's newly discovered "blue sky" and whether or not potential astronauts could ever witness an Earth-like sunrise. The New Horizons space probe sent back its first color images of ...

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 ...

Pluto lost its planetary status in 2006. Nearly two decades later, people are still arguing about it — and now the argument ...

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 ...

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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 ...

NASA’sNew Horizons spacecraft has delivered extraordinary video footage showing towering ice mountains on Pluto’s moon Nix. These ice peaks, some rising as high as 11,000 feet, are made of pure water ...