On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft arrived at Pluto for the first time. The craft flew within 7,700 miles of the planet and is sending back reams of data and the highest resolution ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pluto was discovered 95 years ago on Feb. 18, and even though it was demoted nearly two decades ago, it remains a fascinating part ...

Two white specks appearing next to Pluto in the blackness of space may look like faint blips on a screen. Don’t be fooled. The fuzzy images of moons that NASA New Horizons spacecraft are sending back ...

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 ...

The landscapes of Pluto are starting to take shape. Bright and dark regions rotate in and out of view in new images from the New Horizons spacecraft, scheduled to buzz Pluto on July 14. A bright spot ...

Some things are best seen in shadow. As New Horizons flew past Pluto, it turned its instruments back to see the dark side of the world. Pluto itself is in shadow, but the Sun shining around the rim of ...

An array of images shows Pluto from all sides, as seen by NASA’s New Horizons probe over the course of one full Plutonian day (6.4 Earth days) from July 7 to 13. (Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI) The ...

A set of papers in the journal Science reveal a variety of strange and splendid things about the outer worlds Pluto and Charon. Last summer, the New Horizons spacecraft had everyone talking as it ...

This is the most detailed view of Pluto’s terrain you’ll see for a very long time. This mosaic strip extending across the hemisphere that faced the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on ...

Pluto was discovered back in 1930 and that cute dwarf planet has been a blurry gray pixelated object to us ever since. Though our view of Pluto has gotten better ever so slightly over the years, we’ve ...

Color images of Pluto released by NASA this year show the dwarf planet has a reddish brown surface. But an even newer photo shows that despite those colors, Pluto's atmosphere has a blue haze. The ...