These are the first close-up images from NASA's New Horizons probe as it passes Pluto marking the 'end of an era' in Solar System exploration Pluto has 11,000 ft mountains made of water ice and is ...

NASA just released the first frame of the high-resolution scans of Pluto. The new image is zoomed into less than one percent of Pluto’s surface. It was published less than 24 hours after NASA received ...

Pluto, with its heart-shaped glacier, as captured by the New Horizons spacecraftJPL/NASA Pluto will mark a birthday of sorts on March 23, 2178. No one is likely to be there to celebrate it, of course.

According to data gathered from the New Horizons spacecraft, scientists say that Pluto is likely to have water ice, geysers, and volcanoes. The ice mountains are 11,000 feet high, and the planet's ...