This image of Kerberos was created by combining four individual images from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager that were captured on July 14, approximately seven hours before the ...

Disney and Loungefly are celebrating Pluto’s 95th birthday with a special line of accessories. Mickey’s famous Dog Pluto, is getting ready to celebrate 95 years! Pluto first appeared on September 5, ...

For decades, Pluto remained one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, until July 14, 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to visit it up close, capturing ...

With discoveries about Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons mission rolling in, here are nine of the most interesting facts about the former planet. 1. Pluto was first discovered by a young research ...

In a hundred years, when our great-grandchildren are traipsing around Mars, humanity’s first up-close glimpse of Pluto may not seem like anything special, but to those of us who are currently ...

Though technically not a planet, it has as rich geology as any of its planetary siblings in the solar system Shi En Kim - Reporter A color-enhanced photo of Pluto that was captured by the New Horizons ...

The exploration of Pluto wasn’t easy, but it sure was worth it. As David Grinspoon and I recount in our book, Chasing New Horizons, it took 14 years (1989 to 2003), about a dozen different mission ...

“This is definitely an extraordinary system,” Cathy Olkin, New Horizons Deputy Project Scientist, told NOVA Next on Tuesday. Pluto is a celestial oddball in more ways than one. It’s the only (former) ...