In July, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time ... scientists are learning more about the fascinating dwarf planet at the edge of our solar system.

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from ...

Today, NASA's New Horizons team - which sent the first spacecraft in history to fly over Pluto last week - revealed the latest set of Pluto images ... above the dwarf planet's surface - 5 times ...

Images and data have been flowing in since NASA's epic New Horizons Pluto flyby on Tuesday morning, and the latest image released shows an exaggerated color map of Pluto and its moon Charon.

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto last July, and it took the most detailed images of the planet that have ever been seen. NASA just released some of the ...

Pluto was identified ... flew by the dwarf planet. After a nine-year journey covering over 3 billion miles, New Horizons delivered a treasure trove of data and images that forever changed our ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft, one of the most advanced ever built, is scheduled to fly by Pluto to take the very first detailed images of the dwarf planet. After nine years and 3 ...

Because, while the other planets lie on roughly the same plane, Pluto and its moon ... taking close-up pictures and chemical readings of a mysterious world nine and a half years away.

Whether Pluto is officially a planet is the least interesting ... providing the first high-resolution images of its complex surface features and atmosphere. One of the most memorable images ...