Pluto's secrets are being unraveled! Astronomers have found convincing evidence of a massive ocean of liquid water hidden beneath the dwarf planet's icy surface. This exciting discovery ...

In July, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time. The photos the craft sent back so far have astounded researchers. New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says ...

An curved arrow pointing right. After flying a space probe by Pluto for the first time last summer, NASA discovered an unusual "bite mark" feature on the surface. Produced by Jenner Deal.

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary status.

The mission, which was launched in 2006, took detailed photographs of the surface of Pluto, a dwarf planet and the largest object in the Kuiper belt. Now, a new scientific article published in the ...

The heat might be coming from a hidden ocean or radioactive elements beneath Pluto's surface. This would be a real turn-up for the books as, until now, astronomers thought Pluto was too old to ...

“The real lesson there was that ... some of the haze particles get too hefty to stay aloft, and settle onto Pluto’s surface. They form brown patches of soot that mottle parts of Pluto ...

And that young, smooth swatch has a really important implication: It could mean that Pluto has an active sub-surface that keeps resurfacing and smoothing over the top layer, Zuber said.

Images and data have been flowing in since NASA's epic New Horizons Pluto flyby on Tuesday morning, and the latest image released shows an exaggerated color map of Pluto and its moon Charon.

When NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in July 2015, the images it returned astonished scientists. Not only was the surface more varied than anyone had predicted, but the photographs also ...

Lord of the Underworld and the planet of regeneration, Pluto’s influence is deeply hidden and obscure, but it never ceases to unveil what’s buried beneath the surface. Look at it this way ...