NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...

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 ...

NASA is three months away from getting up close and personal with Pluto thanks to the New Horizons probe. Scientists are pretty excited about what potential discoveries await following the July 14 ...

New color images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show two very different faces of the mysterious dwarf planet, one with a series of intriguing spots along the equator that are evenly spaced. Each ...

From Pluto's distance of more than 3 billion miles, the Sun shrinks to a tiny but brilliant point of light. It's bright enough to cast shadows and light the landscape similar to what we'd see on Earth ...

Twilight on Pluto is seen in this New Horizons image which has been processed two different ways. Image released Sept. 10, 2015. A processed image of the sun shining through Pluto's atmosphere (right, ...

A composite image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft shows enhanced-color views of Pluto at lower right and Charon, its largest moon, at upper left. (NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI Photo) Twelve years after ...

Once the quirky underdog of our solar system, Pluto held planetary status until 2006, when it got a cosmic demotion that still stings space fans. Discovered in 1930, Pluto was the ninth planet for ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...

You know what a planet is, right? A big round thing that orbits a star. Uh, not so fast. You know what a planet is, right? A big round thing that orbits a star. Uh, not so fast. The surprisingly ...