Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

This annotated map shows the initial, informal names being used by the New Horizons team for features and regions on Pluto’s surface. For a larger version, visit OurPluto.org (Credit: OurPluto.org) ...

An image of the Tenzing Montes peaks on Pluto created with New Horizons data and released on July 10, 2018. The mountains range from about 1.8 miles to 3.7 miles (3 to 6 kilometers) above the ...

Here, we made a map with Stellarium to determine where Pluto will be in New York night skies at around 10 pm this evening (July 7). It should be about halfway between the eastern and southern ...

On the two-year anniversary of the New Horizons probe's flyby of Pluto, mission scientists unveiled two detailed global maps of the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon.

That close encounter brought New Horizons within just 7,800 miles (12,550 kilometers) of Pluto's surface; the night-side view of Charon, on the other hand, was taken from a distance of 1.9 million ...

The new map is our sharpest view yet of Pluto, with pixel resolutions ranging from 18 miles (30 km) on the Charon-facing side (left and right edges of the map) to 770 feet (235 meters) on the side ...