New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern has referred to the planet as a 'scientific wonderland'.
New images from the New Horizons probe have revealed another vast region of mountains on Pluto's surface.
The first ever high resolution images of the surface of Pluto have been unveiled at a press conference.
NASA has confirmed today that the New Horizons probe has successfully made its closest approach to Pluto.
The latest photographs from New Horizons show a distinctive heart shape on the surface of Pluto.
Just 10 days away from reaching Pluto the spacecraft has suffered an unexplained communications failure.
The approaching spacecraft has snapped photographs of what appears to be polar ice on the dwarf planet.
After a journey of more than three billion miles the probe is expected to reach its destination in July.
The long-running NASA spacecraft will soon become the first ever to visit this distant, icy world.
The New Horizons spacecraft has managed to capture the orbit of Pluto's largest moon like never before.
New Horizons will be looking for signs of a subterranean sea when it reaches Pluto and Charon next year.
A new theory suggests that Pluto, like Europa and Enceladus, may be home to a liquid water ocean.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has celebrated another milestone - its first photograph of Charon.
Dangerous debris orbiting around Pluto could prove a hazard to NASA's approaching New Horizons probe.
NASA's New Horizons probe is still hurtling towards Pluto at a speed of 1 million miles a day.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is the fastest manmade object ever built, taking only a year to move beyond Jupiter follo...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft launched in 2006 and has since been travelling towards Pluto, a historic 3-billion-mile, ...