Rather than rest on its laurels after making its historic Pluto flyby, the New Horizons spacecraft will aim for a new icy target floating in the Kuiper Belt.
NASA's new full-color images reveal that Pluto's hazy atmosphere shines a brilliant blue, and beneath that sapphire haze lies several expanses of water ice.
A spacecraft with lofty sightseeing ambitions but low on fuel may be able to latch onto passing celestial bodies and use them to swing from comet to asteroid.
NASA combined the latest images from New Horizons's flyby of Pluto into a stunning animation that gives us a glimpse of the dwarf planet's majestic and distinct surface features.