Discover how New Horizons revealed liquid nitrogen rising from Pluto's frozen heart, challenging the idea of a lifeless dwarf ...

Dark markings along the northern edge of Sputnik Planitia, the vast nitrogen-ice glacier that dominates one face of Pluto, are best explained by liquid nitrogen that recently reached the surface, ...

New Horizons showed Pluto is not a dead frozen rock, but a world of glaciers, ice mountains, possible cryovolcanoes, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This high-resolution image captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft combines blue, red and infrared images to show a bright ...

Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh could only dream of a spacecraft flying past the small planet he spotted on the edges of the solar system in 1930. Yet the newest views of Pluto from NASA’s approaching ...

For decades, Pluto remained one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, until July 14, 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to visit it up close, capturing ...

WASHINGTON – NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has provided new data on the Jupiter system, stunning scientists with never-before-seen perspectives of the giant planet’s atmosphere, rings, moons and ...

To the Edge of the Solar System! The Truth About Pluto and the Outer Reaches Revealed by the New Horizons ProbeLaunched in ...

NASA’s New Horizons space probe made history at 7:49:57 am EDT on July 14 as it became the first spacecraft to reach the distant dwarf planet Pluto. The probe has been travelling for more than nine ...