Two months from a historic flyby of Pluto, New Horizons is now detecting surface features on the icy world for the first time. ... NASA probe detects possible polar cap on Pluto.

NASA’s New Horizons probe has picked up a bright spot on Pluto's surface that may indicate a polar ice cap, as it zooms towards its close flyby this summer. The latest images from the almost ...

New images from the approaching New Horizons probe approaching Pluto indicate it Pluto might have a polar cap of nitrogen ice, NASA says. The observation came in a series of pixilated images taken ...

As Pluto rotates in the new series of images, one surprising feature stands out: a bright patch, near the planet’s pole, that could be a polar cap. “Pluto, like the planet Uranus, is tipped on ...

Possible Polar Cap on Pluto. April 7, 2017 April 30, 2015 by Brian Wang. For the first time, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway ...

Images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft suggest that Pluto has a polar cap made of some kind of ice. The pictures, taken over the past few weeks and released on April 29, show Pluto with its ...

This series of images of Pluto and it largest moon, Charon, was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft between April 12-18, 2015. The spacecraft's distance from Pluto decreased from about 69 ...

For the north pole of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, winter is always coming. And when it does, the dark polar night can last more than a century, with temperatures dropping toward absolute zero. A ...

The red cap on Pluto's moon Charon results when ultraviolet light and the solar wind interact with hydrocarbons and turn them into a soup of organic compounds called tholins.

New images from the New Horizons probe approaching Pluto indicate it might have a polar cap of nitrogen ice, NASA says. The observation came in a series of pixilated images taken April 12-19 as ...

Above, you can see the best-ever images of Pluto, our solar system's most distant (dwarf) planet. The animation is made up of images taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft between April 12 and 18 ...