Data is streaming in from New Horizons after yesterday’s historic flyby of Pluto — and it’s painting a picture of the dwarf planet that we could have scarcely imagined. Above: The icy mountains of ...

Mountains of water ice tower thousands of meters over fields of frozen nitrogen and methane. Glaciers etched with channels hint at heat bubbling up from below. A patchwork of new and old terrains — ...

When NASA’s New Horizons mission flew past Pluto in 2015, it gave humanity our first glimpse of a colossal depression on the isolated world. It's named Sputnik Planitia. Comparable in size to the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The spacecraft team that brought us close-ups of Pluto will ring in the new year by exploring an even more distant and mysterious world. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will ...

(CNN) — Black and white images beamed to Earth could be some of the clearest close-ups of Pluto’s surface humans see for decades, NASA says. The images, taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, show ...

There are a lot of things about the tiny world at the edge of our solar system that continue to pique our interests, especially after New Horizons finally completed its nine year journey to Pluto and ...

An "over-the-top" complex mix of craters, ice flows, mountains, valleys and apparent dunes coexist on Pluto in the latest amazing images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. "Pluto is showing us a ...

About a billion miles beyond Pluto, a spacecraft is closing in on an icy minor planet — a mysterious little place that's only about 20 miles across. If all goes well, NASA will start the new year with ...

The downgrading of Pluto to "dwarf planet" may prove to be a guide for those who control major sports in America. If Pluto can be downgraded, why not demote Duke football to "dwarf team?" It's a ...

Today NASA released close-up images of Pluto that are as revelatory as they are beautiful. "Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in ...