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Portrait of Pluto and Charon
Portrait of Pluto and Charon

The latest two full-frame images of Pluto and Charon were collected separately by New Horizons during approach on July 13…

Homing in on Nix, Pluto’s Small Satellite
Homing in on Nix, Pluto’s Small Satellite

Homing in on Pluto's small satellite Nix, New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager captured this image, which shows features as…

Frozen Carbon Monoxide in Pluto’s ‘Heart’
Frozen Carbon Monoxide in Pluto’s ‘Heart’

Peering closely at the “heart of Pluto,” in the western half of what mission scientists have informally named Tombaugh Regio…

Flying Chase for ACTE
Flying Chase for ACTE

A NASA F-15D flies chase for the G-III Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE) project.

Fire Season 2015 in Alaska Set to Break Records
Fire Season 2015 in Alaska Set to Break Records

Fire totals currently on track to make 2015 the worst fire season in Alaskan history.

New Horizons Close-Up of Charon’s ‘Mountain in a Moat’
New Horizons Close-Up of Charon’s ‘Mountain in a Moat’

This new image of an area on Pluto's largest moon Charon has a captivating feature—a depression with a peak in…

STEREO-A Spacecraft Returns Data From the Far Side of the Sun
STEREO-A Spacecraft Returns Data From the Far Side of the Sun

This image of the sun was taken on July 15, 2015, with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager onboard NASA's Solar TErrestrial…

Welcome Back, STEREO-A
Welcome Back, STEREO-A

After 3 months in safe mode, due to its location behind the sun, NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft is back in operation.

Pi-shaped Prominence
Pi-shaped Prominence

At one point, as a solar prominence erupted into space, it seemed to create the Greek letter Pi as seen…

Views of Pluto Through the Years
Views of Pluto Through the Years

This animation combines various observations of Pluto over the course of several decades.