Long Range Reconnaissance Imager

NASA probe beams sharpest ever images of Pluto

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back some of the sharpest images of Pluto, showing a wide variety of cratered, mountainous and glacial terrains, which may be the best close-ups of the icy-dwarf planet that humans could see for decades.

Dec 06, 2015, 13:24 PM IST

New image shows Pluto's puzzling patterns, pits

However, the reasons for the striking shapes and alignments of these features are a mystery.

Oct 19, 2015, 11:42 AM IST

NASA's New Horizons locates Pluto's smallest moon Styx

New images from the New Horizons also reveal the size and shape of Styx - the faintest of Pluto’s five moons.

Oct 13, 2015, 13:28 PM IST