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 ...

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WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — Spurned Pluto is changing its looks, donning more rouge in its complexion and altering its iceball surface here and there. Color astronomers surprised. Newly released Hubble ...

NASA's New Horizons probe is set for July 14 rendezvous with the dwarf planet. — -- NASA's New Horizons space probe sent its first color image of Pluto back to Earth after a nearly decade-long ...

New Horizons was some 115 million km from Pluto (larger light in image) when its Ralph camera captured this view. Image: NASA This image? It’s the first color photograph of Pluto ever captured.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA’s New Horizons Team has released new exaggerated color images from its space probe flyby of Pluto and its moons, highlighting differences between the surface of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON—Spurned Pluto is changing its looks, donning more rouge in its complexion and altering its iceball surface here and there. Color astronomers surprised. Newly released Hubble Space Telescope ...