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 ...

NASA's New Horizons probe has returned the first color images of Pluto. The small blurry dots in the newly-released photo are Pluto and Charon, the largest of Pluto's moons. New Horizons captured the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...