The New Horizons flyby of Pluto and its satellites returned a scientific treasure trove of information about these distant and surprisingly complex worlds, showing a vast nitrogen glacier as well as ...

Pluto's largest moon Charon is captured glowing in "Plutoshine" in this photo taken by New Horizon in 2015. Because sunlight is weak at Pluto's distance, the photo looks pixelated. Credit: NASA/Johns ...

We Americans are addicted to technology, whether it is sending a probe to Pluto that arrives exactly on time or exploring the ocean floor for plant and animal life we have never seen before. The money ...

Pluto’s newest found moon, P4, orbits between Nix and Hydra, both of which orbit beyond Charon. Could there be still more moons of Pluto? Perhaps, and the New Horizons team plans to look harder to ...

Experience the breathtaking flyby of Pluto as New Horizons transforms our understanding of the solar system Witness ice mountains taller than the Alps vast plains and a heart-shaped formation that cap ...

Image of Pluto obtained by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby in July 2015, which reveals the smooth, nitrogen plains of Sputnik Planitia (heart-shaped region) and vast, water-ice ...

NASA is preparing to launch the first spacecraft to distant Pluto and its moon Charon. The January 2006 launch of New Horizons will complete the initial reconnaissance of the planets in the solar ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently began its long-awaited, historic encounter with Pluto. The spacecraft is entering the first of several approach phases that culminate July 14 with the first ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made headlines traveling past Pluto into the depths of outer space. While there are no polls on Pluto, pollsters have asked Americans for years about space ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pluto, a frigid little world inhabiting the solar system's outer reaches, may have been born as a warmer place sheltering a subsurface ocean that still exists today, researchers ...