If someone asked you what color Pluto was, you’d probably describe it as a icy blue or gray, which is how it’s depicted in the vast majority of illustrations and renderings. But as NASA’s ...

Your favorite is-it-isn't-it planet, Pluto, finally has its own self-portrait: After almost a decade of wandering through space, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft finally got close enough to Pluto ...

Pluto's atmosphere has a blue haze, in a new photo from the New Horizons probe. But the particles causing that color are probably gray or red — and the planet's surface has red ice.

The "heart" on Pluto is and other surface details are clearly visible in this stunning false-color view of the dwarf planet captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft this month. NASA unveiled the ...

A week before the historic New Horizons close-up of Pluto, NASA has released new photos and the first color movie showing strange surface detail of the "other red planet" and its largest moon. One ...

What color is Pluto? The answer, revealed in the first maps made from New Horizons data, turns out to be shades of reddish brown. Although this is reminiscent of Mars, the cause is almost ...

News, analysis and curiosities to ease your commute home. What color is the sky in your world? Well, if your world is Earth, then it's blue (unless you live in London or Seattle, then it's grey ...

Now, NASA has stitched 100 of those photos into a color video that shows (roughly) what it might look like to land on Pluto. The video is a color adaptation of a black-and-white version published ...

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 ...