Celebrations as Nasa's New Horizons probe makes Pluto flyby - video

Scientists at Nasa's New Horizons mission control centre celebrate the spacecraft's flyby of Pluto. The US probe shot past Pluto at more than 45,000 km/h (28,00mph) at 12.49pm UK time on a trajectory that brought the spacecraft within 12,500km of the body's surface. John Grunsfeld, Nasa's associate administrator for science, says studies of Pluto will help explain more about Earth's own origins and how our solar system was formed Continue reading...