For the first time, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto the primary target of the New Horizons close flyby in mid-July. The ...

For decades, Pluto remained one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, until July 14, 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to visit it up close, capturing ...

This is the most detailed view of Pluto’s terrain you’ll see for a very long time. This mosaic strip extending across the hemisphere that faced the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on ...

New Horizons sends back best photos yet as probe closes in on Pluto. New color images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show two very different faces of the mysterious dwarf planet, one with a ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- NASA just received a signal back from New Horizons, confirming a successful first flyby of Pluto. Euphoria broke out at NASA as Pluto is now the most distant object reached by ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has identified new clues about the surface of Pluto’s largest moon. It detected for the first time traces of carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the ...

This series of images of Pluto and it largest moon, Charon, was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft between April 12-18, 2015. The spacecraft's distance from Pluto decreased from about 69 million ...

NASA has written up a summary of discoveries to date from its New Horizons mission to Pluto, four months after the craft sailed past the icy dwarf planet. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...