Despite being some six billion kilometers away, the sun from Pluto would be a dazzling sight to behold—carefully, that is Imagine, for a moment, that you are an intrepid space explorer, jaunting ...

During its departure from Pluto, New Horizons used its LORRI camera to image a portion of Pluto’s southern hemisphere that was in a decades-long seasonal winter darkness, but still very faintly ...

As the New Horizons space probe races towards its close encounter with Pluto in three days time, it’s just beamed back the best view we’ll ever get of the face of Pluto turned permanently towards its ...

When New Horizons reached the dwarf planet, the craft was moving at 52,000 kilometres per hour, so fast it was able to capture close-ups of only one side of Pluto — the hemisphere that the Sun ...