Pluto and its moon Charon have been captured in full color and, well, slightly jerky motion by NASA's New Horizons probe. At a distance of around 30 million miles (50 million kilometers), the duo are ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon orbit their mutual center of gravity (marked with 'x') in this still from the first color animation of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured between May ...

As it edges ever closer to its landmark flyby of Pluto in July, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has returned its first color image of the dwarf planet and its largest moon Charon. This first blurry ...

Recent images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope show that Pluto?s three moons are the same color, lending support to the theory that they were formed by a single, giant collision 4.6 billion years ...

When viewed in enhanced color, the icy, outer world of Pluto looks very different from its more uniform, subdued hues. The hilly plains in Pluto's heart-shaped area are mostly uniform, as a flat ...

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 ...

When NASA launched the New Horizons spacecraft in January of 2006, Pluto was still a planet. By August of that year, it had been demoted to dwarf status. But despite the haters who tried to knock it ...

Images and data have been flowing in since NASA's epic New Horizons Pluto flyby on Tuesday morning, and the latest image released shows an exaggerated color map of Pluto and its moon Charon. The ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The mysterious face of Pluto is beginning to yield some of its secrets in this stunning ...

The first color "movies" of Pluto as seen by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal the sheer strangeness of the orbital dance between the dwarf planet and its largest moon Charon. In a new animation ...