When viewed in enhanced color, the icy, outer world of Pluto looks very different from its more uniform, subdued hues. The hilly plains in Pluto's heart-shaped area are mostly uniform, as a flat ...

New Horizons has obtained impressive new images of Pluto and its large moon Charon that highlight their compositional diversity. These are not actual color images of Pluto and Charonthey are shown ...

The first color movies from NASA’s New Horizons mission show Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, and the complex orbital dance of the two bodies, known as a double planet. “It’s exciting to see Pluto ...

Pluto and its moon Charon have been captured in full color and, well, slightly jerky motion by NASA's New Horizons probe. At a distance of around 30 million miles (50 million kilometers), the duo are ...

NASA's New Horizons probe is set for July 14 rendezvous with the dwarf planet. — -- NASA's New Horizons space probe sent its first color image of Pluto back to Earth after a nearly decade-long ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft returns its first color photos of Pluto (center) and its largest moon, Charon (lower left). NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto has returned its first color image of ...

This stunning space wallpaper shows Pluto in color as New Horizons scientists combined four images from the spacecraft Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) with color data from the Ralph ...

We finally got a full-color view of Pluto’s skies—and they look awfully familiar. NASA just released its first color view of those planetary hazes they’ve been so curious about. And, it turns out that ...

The first color "movies" of Pluto as seen by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal the sheer strangeness of the orbital dance between the dwarf planet and its largest moon Charon. In a new animation ...

NASA’s New Horizons Team has released new exaggerated color images from its space probe flyby of Pluto and its moons, highlighting differences between the surface of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon ...

When NASA launched the New Horizons spacecraft in January of 2006, Pluto was still a planet. By August of that year, it had been demoted to dwarf status. But despite the haters who tried to knock it ...

Today, NASA released the highest resolution photos yet of Pluto taken by the New Horizons spacecraft on July 14th, when the probe made its closest approach to the dwarf planet. The photos were ...