Pluto

Pluto's surface harbors a surprising amount of water ice, a new map made using data captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveals.

Pluto's blue bands shine spectacularly in the highest-resolution image yet of the dwarf planet's atmosphere.

Pictures are still filtering back from NASA's New Horizons close-up of Pluto last year and one of the biggest surprises so far comes from the region informally known as Sputnik Planum.

Pluto's weirdly dynamic and 'young' surface has just become even more intriguing with the release of this stunning color image of what is thought to be a huge cryovolcano, or ice volcano.

An intriguing X-shaped feature is visible on the huge Pluto nitrogen-ice plain known as Sputnik Planum in photos recently beamed home by NASA's New Horizons probe.

A long, winding mosaic photo reveals the face of Pluto in all its dizzying, baffling variety.

Pluto's complex geology just got a little less mysterious thanks to two incredible new photos from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

Photos taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show the changing faces of Pluto and its biggest moon, Charon, over the course of a full day, which lasts 6.4 Earth days on both faraway worlds.