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When viewed in enhanced color, the icy, outer world of Pluto looks very different from its more uniform, subdued hues. The hilly plains in Pluto's heart-shaped area are mostly uniform, as a flat ...

The growling list of mysteries surrounding Pluto just got longer. On Oct. 8, NASA released the first color photo of Pluto's atmosphere, and the shade they saw was anything but expected: "Who would ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon orbit their mutual center of gravity (marked with 'x') in this still from the first color animation of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured between May ...

WASHINGTON—Spurned Pluto is changing its looks, donning more rouge in its complexion and altering its iceball surface here and there. Color astronomers surprised. Newly released Hubble Space Telescope ...

We finally got a full-color view of Pluto’s skies—and they look awfully familiar. NASA just released its first color view of those planetary hazes they’ve been so curious about. And, it turns out that ...

Pluto and its moon Charon have been captured in full color and, well, slightly jerky motion by NASA's New Horizons probe. At a distance of around 30 million miles (50 million kilometers), the duo are ...

When NASA launched the New Horizons spacecraft in January of 2006, Pluto was still a planet. By August of that year, it had been demoted to dwarf status. But despite the haters who tried to knock it ...

New Horizons was some 115 million km from Pluto (larger light in image) when its Ralph camera captured this view. Image: NASA This image? It’s the first color photograph of Pluto ever captured.

NASA has released the sharpest images yet of Pluto. What's more, unlike the usual black-and-white photos of Pluto we're used to seeing, this latest set reveals Pluto in stunning color. The photo below ...

This stunning space wallpaper shows Pluto in color as New Horizons scientists combined four images from the spacecraft Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) with color data from the Ralph ...