A high-resolution enhanced colour view of Charon just before closest approach. Photograph: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best colour and the highest......
Two of Pluto's moons, Nix and Hydra, wobble unpredictably, according to a comprehensive analysis of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This illustration shows the scale and comparative......
The reddish polar region on Pluto's largest moon, Charon, is an effect of methane gas escaping from the icy dwarf planet's atmosphere, say scientists who solved the mystery behind the coloured......
NASA’s Pluto experts have revealed new high resolution close up images of the surface of Pluto -- and admit they are stunned by the planet. They reveal a ‘bewildering variety of surface......
This image of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, was taken by the Ralph color imager aboard New Horizons on April 9, 2015, from a distance of about 71 million miles (115 million kilometers). It......