LAUREL, Md. — Alan Stern, head of the New Horizons mission to Pluto, had just three words for the team of scientists and engineers assembled with him on July 14: “We did it.” At 8:52:37 p.m. Eastern ...

It’s been eight months since New Horizons made its historic flyby of Pluto, but data keeps on trickling in from the intrepid space probe. Scientists have now produced a new composite map, creating the ...

Expectations for active geology on Pluto were pretty low prior to the arrival of the New Horizons probe. But the photos that came back from the dwarf planet revealed a world of mountains, ridges, and.

This synthetic perspective view of Pluto, based on the latest high-resolution images to be downlinked from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, shows what you would see if you were approximately 1,100 ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. This region of Pluto's surface is separated into huge cells, some 10 to 25 miles wide (16 to 40 kilometers).

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made a historic fly-by of the dwarf-planet Pluto on July 14, 2015, but even after six and a half years scientists are still combing over data and further unraveling ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the highest definition images of Pluto yet, and they are spectacular. In the video above, the dwarf planet’s landscape is revealed in unprecedented detail, ...

Stunning new images of Pluto backlit by the sun reveal a landscape of majestic mountains, foggy plains and hazes. The images, taken on July 14 by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from a distance of ...

New images from the New Horizons spacecraft's close encounter with Pluto this week show the dwarf planet emerging in wonderfully perplexing detail. “I’m still having to remind myself to take deep ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Vast frozen plains exist next door to Pluto’s big, rugged mountains sculpted of ice, scientists said Friday, three days after humanity’s first-ever flyby of the dwarf planet.

Nasa has released new images of Pluto and its largest moon Charon. The latest images have revealed more about the dwarf planet and its atmosphere. They were taken by the New Horizon spacecraft when it ...