The heart's brightness arises from sunlight reflection, while red patches, formed by tholins, showcase Pluto's atmospheric intricacies and ongoing discoveries in the Kuiper Belt.

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 ...

Decades-old pictures of Pluto’s heart are breaking the Internet again. University of Oxford's Dr Carly Howett explains the science behind the New Horizons mission and that famous 5-billion-kilometre ...

(MEDIA GENERAL) – As NASA spacecraft New Horizons continues its way through space, scientists and science enthusiasts have taken to social media to express their feelings on Tuesday’s historic Pluto ...

On06, NASA launched a spacecraft to Pluto! New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano, and it became the ...

full advantage of a flyby of the icy dwarf planet Tuesday with astronomy-themed face painting, an extra Pluto presentation and a live NASA stream that will tell the world whether the mission was ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- NASA just received a signal back from New Horizons, confirming a successful first flyby of Pluto. Euphoria broke out at NASA as Pluto is now the most distant object reached by ...

We've done it! We've made it to Pluto. Good gosh, it took 9 1/2 years to get there traveling faster than any planetary probe we've ever sprung into the solar system. While we won't have close up ...

Ask Lowell Observatory Director Jeffrey Hall how he feels about the visit to Pluto by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft and he literally shivers with excitement. “I can’t even think about it without ...

Clyde Tombaugh noticed a speck of light that was Pluto in 1930. — -- Clyde Tombaugh is finally getting to visit the speck of light he spotted at the edge of the solar system in 1930. New Horizons ...