In mid-July, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past the dwarf planet Pluto and captured high detail photographs of the surface. Although New Horizons sent back one good photograph already near the ...

NASA has released the latest batch of images of Pluto and its complex system of moons, revealing the dwarf planet’s heart in stunning detail. The white heart shape was Pluto’s most prominent feature ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first few of a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby — and this image sequence forms the best close-ups of Pluto that ...

New close-up images of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveal a bewildering variety of surface features that have scientists reeling because of their range and complexity. Image: This ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft completed a historic flyby of Pluto on Tuesday, becoming the first spacecraft to pass over the small, icy world and its five moons. At 4:49 a.m. Pacific Time, the ...

A new image of Pluto was sent back to Earth from the far, far distant New Horizons space probe, and it’s a doozy: It shows Pluto from the other side, backlit by the Sun. While we’ve seen pictures like ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby and the best close-ups of Pluto that humans may see for decades Each ...

NASA has been slowly receiving high quality photographs of the Pluto flyby mission from the New Horizons spacecraft as it continues into interstellar space, but the distance of the spacecraft from the ...

A fresh batch of images straight from the New Horizons downlink give us just what we’ve been waiting for: color views of Pluto! Ridiculously high resolution detail! Strange new snakeskin textures!

LAUREL, Maryland — NASA on Wednesday revealed new images from the New Horizons spacecraft that flew by Pluto one day earlier. “Yesterday, America’s space program took another historic leap for ...

Newly computer-processed images of Pluto taken by the Hubble Space Telescope show that it is not simply a ball of ice and rock, but a dynamic world that undergoes dramatic atmospheric changes produced ...