Pluto atmosphere collapse is now supported by measured data for the first time. A peer-reviewed study in The Planetary ...

For the first time since its discovery in 1920, Pluto is entering the outer solar system—a journey that’s slowly thinning out ...

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 ...

Pluto is on an icy march away from the sun. In 2114, it will turn back, but until then, its elliptical orbit will carry it to ...

Researchers have identified six giant landslides inside three impact craters, where ice and debris fell more than 2 kilometers and slid as far as 14 kilometers. The finding gives scientists new ...

Pluto with a super-cryovolcano? Why not! All the elements are there, just not in the way we normally think of volcanoes. And cryovolcanoes are the reason why Pluto's surface looks the way it does. A ...

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 ...

The mystery of how Pluto got a giant heart-shaped feature on its surface has finally been solved by an international team of astrophysicists led by the University of Bern and members of the National ...

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 ...

For the first time, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto the primary target of the New Horizons close flyby in mid-July. The ...