Surely with Pluto so far away from the Sun, it would be pitch black there, right? Well the answer may surprise you.

Despite the incremental progress, Pluto’s true nature remained elusive. Then, of course, came the New Horizons mission. New Horizons Unveils Pluto’s True Face The watershed moment in Pluto’s ...

Images and data have been flowing in since NASA's epic New Horizons Pluto flyby on Tuesday morning, and the latest image released shows an exaggerated color map of Pluto and its moon Charon.