NASA just released the first frame of the high-resolution scans of Pluto. The new image is zoomed into less than one percent of Pluto’s surface. It was published less than 24 hours after NASA received ...

These are the first close-up images from NASA's New Horizons probe as it passes Pluto marking the 'end of an era' in Solar System exploration Pluto has 11,000 ft mountains made of water ice and is ...

Today is a historic day—one that will bring joy to the hundreds of millions of Pluto lovers around the globe. The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the body that is responsible for naming and ...

Yesterday NASA released the first high-resolution photography of Pluto. Alan Stern, who leads the New Horizons mission as its principal investigator, described the data as “something wonderful.” ...

Poor Pluto. On August 24, 2006 at the International Astronomy Union (IAU) General Assembly the ninth planet was scrubbed only 76 years after its discovery. Even weirder is that it actually got voted ...

In 2006, Pluto was voted out of the planetary club by members of the International Astronomical Union Nasa's New Horizons mission made a close pass of Pluto this week. For more than 70 years, Pluto ...