Researchers use numerical simulations of Pluto's climate to discover that its ice caps are created using an entirely different process than Earth. Tanguy Bertrand, one of the project researchers ...

On Earth, these snow caps are produced by enhanced precipitation ... The behavior of nitrogen ice is important to Pluto’s atmosphere, with sublimation in the northern hemisphere and condensation ...

NASA’s New Horizons probe has picked up a bright spot on Pluto's surface that may indicate a polar ice cap, as it zooms towards its close flyby this summer. The latest images from the almost ...

"It is particularly remarkable to see that two very similar landscapes on Earth and Pluto can be created by two very dissimilar processes," says one researcher. New research into Pluto's mountain ...

The first surface details start to come into view as NASA's New Horizons space probe speeds toward its summer rendezvous with Pluto and its moons. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the ...

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New images from the approaching New Horizons probe approaching Pluto indicate it Pluto might have a polar cap of nitrogen ice, NASA says. The observation came in a series of pixilated images taken ...

Check out the best images yet of the dwarf planet Pluto. The moving images of Pluto ... that it is very suspiciously suggestive of a polar cap," Stern said. "That could be very exciting." ...

Pluto may have a polar ice cap. This is the tantalising prospect revealed in the latest images to come down from the New Horizons spacecraft. The US space agency probe is en route to the dwarf ...

Pluto may have a chilly polar ice cap just like Earth's, NASA scientists have said after examining new pictures transmitted to earth by the New Horizon probe. This spaceship is drawing ever nearer ...

Scientists were somewhat taken aback by the light and dark variations on the planet’s surface, which suggest that Pluto may have ice caps and snowy weather conditions. The BBC explains that ...

Scientists believe Pluto could have a polar ice cap, after analysing the first images received from the New Horizons spacecraft. Although the dwarf planet appears as little much more than a ...