A newly discovered mountain range lies near the southwestern part of Pluto’s heart-shaped region called Tombaugh Regio.
New Horizons continues on its journey through the Kuiper Belt.
Space exploration is having quite the moment.
Pluto is a dwarf planet full of surprises.
NASA spacecraft have explored the 8 planets -- and one former planet -- that make up our solar system.
NASA's New Horizons performed a quick flyby of Pluto Tuesday and completed the initial reconnaissance of our solar system.
"We explore because we are human," Stephen Hawking said in a congratulatory message to the New Horizons team.
New Horizons has reached Pluto.
The images are the result of a nine year, $3 billion trip to Pluto.
For NASA, the close approach completed the first initial observation of our solar system.
NASA's historic New Horizons mission will make its close approach to Pluto early Tuesday morning.
A dwarf in name and classification only.
After a journey of over nine years, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is finally close enough to discern surface features on the cold, dwarf planet.
Despite being shaped by the same cosmic collision billions of years ago, Pluto and Charon are more like strangers than siblings, astronomers say.
New Horizons provides a new image of Pluto, which shows a large heart-shaped bright area on the planet's surface.
The map reveals that all of the darkest regions on the surface lie along Pluto’s equator.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which entered "safe mode" over the weekend, has now recovered and beamed back fresh photos of Pluto.
The probe has been barreling toward the dwarf planet and its primary moon, Charon, since January 2006.
Astronomers believe that the methane on Pluto's surface is likely inherited from the solar nebula that created the solar system.
NASA's New Horizons, scheduled to make a flyby of the dwarf planet on July 14, has captured the "complex orbital dance" of Pluto and its moon Charon.
The new images, captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, reveal various surface markings across Pluto.
The two moons, Nix and Hydra, wobble because they are embedded in a gravitational field that shifts constantly, astronomers said.