The first observations of Pluto by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like ...

The dark red pole on Pluto's largest moon Charon may be some of the dwarf planet's own siphoned-off atmosphere. Images and data captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft suggest that the reddish ...

Sputnik Planitia is a 325,000-square-mile, ice-covered basin on Pluto. NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Pluto tends to get a reputation for ...

SEE ALSO: Hello, Pluto: The 9-year journey to a new horizon The dwarf planet's high elevations in the region are somewhat yellow-tinged, a coloration "not seen elsewhere on Pluto," according to ...

“When Tod did that painstaking analysis, we finally saw something emerging in the dark there … giving us a little bit of a glimpse of what the dark pole of Pluto looks like,” Spencer say ...

The moving images of Pluto and its Texas-sized moon Charon you ... the highly reflective area around one of the dwarf planet's pole. (It's the bright white area in the 3 o'clock position in ...

A series of canyons snakes across Pluto's frigid north polar region, a gorgeous, newly released photo of the dwarf planet reveals. The enhanced-color image, which was captured by NASA's New ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A new study finds that Pluto is “spray-painting” the red poles of its big moon Charon. The paint is actually Pluto’s continually escaping atmosphere.

An impact early in Pluto’s history would have created a mass deficit, causing Sputnik Planitia to slowly migrate toward the dwarf planet’s north pole over time while the planet was still forming.

whose work led to Pluto’s discovery), Pluto’s north pole is streaked with enormous canyons that can be seen running vertically across the left side of the photo. The largest, which is ...

NASA’s New Horizons has found frozen canyons at Pluto’s North Pole that seem to indicate an ancient period of tectonic activity on the planet. In a beautiful new image from the spacecraft ...