Pluto’s heart-shaped feature, known as Tombaugh Regio, has captivated scientists and the public alike since its discovery. This striking geological formation offers insights into the unique ...

The rare encounter revealed a distant world with giant ice sheets, mountains, valleys, and terrains unlike any other seen in the solar system. By reexamining those iconic images, scientists believe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pluto and its heart-shaped Sputnik Planitia as imaged by New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. Pluto's surface, fitting for a world ...

University of Maryland astronomers Silvia Protopapa and Douglas Hamilton are among the authors of the first published paper from the New Horizons flyby, which appears in the Oct. 16, 2015, issue of ...

Pluto has long been one of the most controversial objects in our Solar System. For decades it proudly held the title of the ninth planet, only to be reclassified in 2006 as a dwarf planet. That ...

Scientists have discovered carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, offering clues about the origins of the space rock and other celestial objects in the ...

The first observations of Pluto by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like seasonal cycles of volatile ice redistribution across its surface, and ...

A study of Pluto’s bright frosts suggests that the way the planet cools down is rapid and disorganised. The results were presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Berlin. Pluto’s surface ...

As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto’s moon Charon, where it helped scientists to make a surprising discovery.

Recent images captured by New Horizons have unveiled six substantial landslides on Pluto, revealing intriguing gravitational slope failures across the dwarf planet's icy landscape. The remarkable ...