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According to Brian Cox, a physicist from England, Pluto may be home to a subterranean ocean, which may be warm and adequate to harbor life forms. Although the presence of watery environments beneath Pluto was not proven yet, Cox believes that it’s certainly possible that...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took this image of Pluto with its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 13, 2015.

These new images of Pluto may very well be the highest-resolution images that we’re going to get of Nix, Hydra, Charon and Pluto.

A recent analysis of the images reveals two different layers of haze. It captured the sunlight shining through the tiny planet’s atmosphere, revealing a haze that rested as high as 130 km above the surface.

Releasing a tranche of new images, mission controllers also gave more information about crucial new data gathered during the spacecraft’s historic flight through the Pluto system on July 14. The image was taken at a distance of 1.25 million miles from the dwarf planet and...

Releasing a tranche of new images, mission controllers also gave more information about crucial new data gathered during the spacecraft’s historic flight through the Pluto system on July 14.

As it has neared the dwarf planet, the probe has been sending back increasingly clearer images of its target, and got as close as possible at around 11.50am GMT Tuesday – that’s 12.50pm United Kingdom time, 4.50am Pacific time or 9.50pm Australian time. The probe...

“This terrain is not easy to explain”, said Jeff Moore, leader of the New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging Team.

This combination of images from July 1 to July 3, 2015, provided by NASA shows Pluto at different distances from the New Horizons spacecraft. Stern’s coveted job title now is principal investigator of the New Horizons mission. Sharper versions will be sent down over the...

Taken at a height of 12,500km above the planet it shows complex surface features including plains and mountain ranges. It looked like a fuzzy blob in our best telescopes.

That’s 10 to 25 kilometers larger than previously estimated.

New images of Pluto released by NASA’s New Horizons mission promises a rare insight of the mysterious planet though what is intriguing scientists most right now are four dark spots lining the dwarf planet’s equator.

New Horizons is a lean, speedy space machine, but mission managers did tuck in nine mementos. The data will travel billions of miles over radiowaves and then undergo processing.

The switch also means that science observations are resuming, and it should not be long before fresh images of the dwarf planet and its entourage of moons starts popping up again. “In that same time, our unmanned space missions have been even more successful, and the New...

Further to that, it takes at least four and a half hours for the spacecraft to send data to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., as New Horizons is now 3 billion miles away from Earth.