IMAGES
Breaking news from Nasa: here are the first close-up details from the surface of Pluto, our solar system's most distant planet.
Charon, Pluto's largest moon.
Here's Pluto's moon Hydra, imaged for the first time and said to be composed of water-ice.
Here's methane in Pluto's atmosphere, mapped.
EARLIER
It's Christmas, Halloween, and every other holiday you can imagine for space geeks today. Today is the day when images sent back from NASA's New Horizons probe from humanity's first Pluto fly-by will be revealed, at 3pm Eastern.
We're watching live on NASA TV. This post will be updated as images come through.
In the Mission Control center, NASA's New Horizons operations team celebrates a successful visit to Pluto by the space probe.
Data is streaming back from the probe near Pluto.
We are as close as we've ever been to Pluto, and images even more spectacular than this are on the way.
The New Horizons team at work, after a successful Pluto encounter. Photos: NASA
The New Horizons team at work, after a successful Pluto encounter. Photos: NASA
