It was one of the most ambitious missions for NASA since the turn of the century, with photos reshaping what scientists know about the distant world.

NASA released the photos today (Feb. 4), on the birthday of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930. (Tombaugh died in 1997 at age 90.) [ Photos from NASA's New Horizons ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made history by flying past Pluto, sending back groundbreaking data that would change our ...

Image: Mosaic of high-resolution images of Pluto, sent back from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft from Sept. 5 to 7, 2015. The image is dominated by the informally-named icy plain Sputnik Planum ...

July 1: Mysterious dark spots on Pluto. On July 1, NASA released images showing Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in true color. The photos reveal a series of evenly spaced dark splotches, ...

Get ready to be amazed: NASA today unveiled the best-ever images of Pluto, revealing the dwarf planet's varied and exotic landscape in amazing detail. The spectacular photos, which were captured ...

New images of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have arrived, and the photos are eerily beautiful. Pluto appears backlit by the sun, and viewers can see the varied terrain of the planet ...

Pluto has an icy heart and the latest photos from NASA let you take a look at it. The New Horizons spacecraft released a new batch of images of the dwarf planet. The backlit panoramas show glacial ...

NASA‘s New Horizons probe achieved its closest approach to Pluto on Tuesday morning, flying just 7,800 miles from the dwarf planet. Now NASA is sharing the first high-resolution images from the ...

Astonishing Pluto in sharp focus 44 photos. Stunning, high-resolution view of Pluto's frigid surface, shot just 15 minutes before NASA's New Horizons probe zoomed past the dwarf planet July 14 ...

It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...