The first color "movies" of Pluto as seen by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal the sheer strangeness of the orbital dance between the dwarf planet and its largest moon Charon. In a new animation ...

New Horizons scientists combined the latest black and white map of Pluto’s surface features (left) with a map of the planet’s colors (right) to produce a detailed color portrait of the planet’s ...

It may be blurry and a little far off, but this is humanity’s first ever color image of the dwarf planet Pluto, which NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is due to visit on July 14. The snap of Pluto and ...

The first color movies from NASA’s New Horizons mission show Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, and the complex orbital dance of the two bodies, known as a double planet. “It’s exciting to see Pluto ...

New Horizons has obtained impressive new images of Pluto and its large moon Charon that highlight their compositional diversity. These are not actual color images of Pluto and Charonthey are shown ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft returns its first color photos of Pluto (center) and its largest moon, Charon (lower left). NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto has returned its first color image of ...