The target appears Pluto and Charon when New Horizons was 69 million miles (111 million kilometers) away. Image: NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI This image of Pluto and its moon Charon was taken on April 15 ...

Pluto’s mysterious far side may conceal towering ice formations, according to research offering clues about the dwarf ...

Nine years, 3 billion miles, and $700 million later, we are finally getting the very first high resolution photos of Pluto, thanks to a NASA spacecraft called New Horizons. It’s a pretty small ...

Giant, ridge-like structures of methane ice, known as "bladed terrain," may be much more abundant along Pluto's equator than ...

The NASA spacecraft, called New Horizons, was 3.7 million miles away from Pluto when it used its LORRI (Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager)camera to snap the first clear photo of Pluto ever taken.

NASA’s 2024 image collection highlights stunning views of Earth and detailed microgravity experiments aboard the ISS. Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), hailed as the ‘Comet of the Century ...

This is how NASA receives photos taken from their deep space probes. It's most often just the transmission of radio waves, not at all dissimilar to the regular household devices you use every day ...

On Thursday, NASA released a color photo captured by their New Horizons spacecraft which shows off Pluto’s diverse geological and compositional features in the north polar area. It was obtained ...

Image: Mosaic of high-resolution images of Pluto, sent back from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft from Sept. 5 to 7, 2015. The image is dominated by the informally-named icy plain Sputnik Planum ...

Space & Spaceflight The Coolest Images Taken by NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft The spacecraft has seen a lot over the course of its sixteen year, 4.8-billion-mile journey to the outer solar system.