Your favorite is-it-isn't-it planet, Pluto, finally has its own self-portrait: After almost a decade of wandering through space, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft finally got close enough to Pluto — ...

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 ...

A week before the historic New Horizons close-up of Pluto, NASA has released new photos and the first color movie showing strange surface detail of the "other red planet" and its largest moon. One ...

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 ...

The image shows Pluto in color, obtained by New Horizons spacecraft on July 3, 2015, using color data gathered earlier. [Read the full story.] New color images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite of enhanced color images of Pluto and Charon taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...

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 ...

Annotated version of the Pluto photo taken by New Horizons on July 11, 2015, showing linear features that may be cliffs, as well as a large circular feature that could be an impact crater. Image of ...