What did NASA’s New Horizons find around Pluto? This groundbreaking mission unveiled a world of surprisWhat did NASA’s New ...

Pluto may have been downgraded from full-planet status, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hold a special place in scientist's ...

Mapping Pluto Broken Heart | This image was taken by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on the morning ...

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

Solar and cosmochemical data indicate high levels of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Sun. Researchers have unveiled a new ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

This color-enhanced photo shows the tan-colored western lobe of Pluto’s heart, which is known as Tombaugh Regio. NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI Looking at a New Horizons photo of Pluto, anyone would be ...

The changing faces of Pluto| The predominant color of Pluto's surface is thought to result from ultraviolet radiation from the distant Sun breaking down methane on the planet's surface, leaving a dark ...

When the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006, it surprised a lot of people, including some scientists. Even many years later, some ...