2012

• 7/11/2012 STScI-2012-32 1. Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The moon is estimated to be irregular... (More)

2011

• 7/20/2011 STScI-2011-23 2. NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto These two images, taken about a week apart by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, show four moons orbiting the distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto. The green circle in both snapshots... (More)

2010

• 2/4/2010 STScI-2010-06 3. New Hubble Maps of Pluto Show Surface Changes Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has been a speck of light in the largest ground-based telescopes. But NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)

2006

• 6/22/2006 STScI-2006-29 4. Pluto's Two Small Moons Officially Named Nix and Hydra A pair of small moons that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovered orbiting Pluto now have official names: Nix and Hydra. Photographed... (More)
• 3/10/2006 STScI-2006-15 5. Hubble's Latest Look at Pluto's Moons Supports a Common Birth The latest NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Pluto's two newly discovered satellites reveal that the new moons have the same color as Charon. (More)
• 2/22/2006 STScI-2006-09 6. Hubble Confirms New Moons of Pluto Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the presence of two new moons around the distant planet Pluto. The moons were first discovered... (More)

2005

• 10/31/2005 STScI-2005-19 7. NASA's Hubble Reveals Possible New Moons Around Pluto NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted two possible new moons orbiting Pluto, the ninth planet in our solar system. If confirmed, the candidate moons could provide... (More)

1996

• 3/7/1996 STScI-1996-09 8. Hubble Reveals Surface of Pluto for First Time For the first time since Pluto's discovery 66 years ago, astronomers have at last directly seen details on the surface of the solar system's farthest known planet. (More)

1994

• 5/16/1994 STScI-1994-17 9. Hubble Portrait of the "Double Planet" Pluto & Charon This is the clearest view yet of the distant planet Pluto and its moon Charon, as revealed by the Hubble telescope. ... (More)

1990

• 10/4/1990 STScI-1990-14 10. First ESA Faint Object Camera Science Images Pluto - the "Double Planet" NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has obtained the clearest pictures ever of our solar system's most distant and enigmatic object:... (More)