Today, NASA's New Horizons team - which sent the first spacecraft in history to fly over Pluto last week - revealed the latest set of Pluto images that came with some big surprsies and new mysteries.

If you stood on Pluto's surface, the Sun would merely appear to be a very bright star. Although previous images showed that something was happening on Pluto, with an average temperature of -240C ...

Fortunately, NASA asked New Horizons to beam some "first look" photos Wednesday morning and afternoon. So today at 3 p.m. ET we get to see the best-ever views of Pluto and its moons Charon ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

Astrum explores everything NASA's New Horizons saw and discovered in the Kuiper Belt around Pluto, Charon and Arrokoth (Ultima Thule).

The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe. Clyde Tombaugh didn't set out to discover Pluto when he sent his ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto last July, and it took the most detailed images of the planet that have ever been seen. NASA just released some of the ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh ... The machine involved taking pairs of photos of the evening sky several nights apart and then using a special viewer to rapidly switch between ...

If you get bored of looking at Earth, they have photos of stuff incomprehensibly far away and beautiful for you." A second ...

A blue atmosphere, smooth areas, and youthful mountain ranges - this dwarf planet is full of surprises. When NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in July 2015, the images it returned astonished ...

Pluto was discovered at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1930 and was considered our ninth planet until 2006. The International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet ...