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 ...

Although it has been close to a decade since NASA's New Horizons spacecraft visited Pluto, the dwarf planet continues to reveal itself as a surprisingly complex world. Instead of molten rock that ...

FLAGSTAFF — As NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zooms ever closer to Pluto, it is sending back images that make even seasoned scientists’ eyes go wide with excitement. “Like a kid in the candy shop,” ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted new evidence of complex organic molecules — the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it — on the frigid surface of Pluto, a new study finds.

This is the most detailed view of Pluto’s terrain you’ll see for a very long time. This mosaic strip extending across the hemisphere that faced the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on ...

Pluto, once dismissed as stagnant and boring, is turning out to be as flamboyant as they come. Two new studies buttress the idea that Pluto is coyly concealing an ocean beneath its icy shell. The same ...

New Horizons is still 70-million miles (113-million km) from Pluto, but the spacecraft starting to see some surface features on the dwarf planet, including a possible ice cap at its pole. Earlier this ...

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 ...

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On Sept. 8, 2021, a Reddit user posted a brief video showing the surface of Pluto. The black-and-white video displayed "ice mountains, frozen plains and layers of atmospheric haze." The video was made ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers propose an ammonia-water slurry as the basis for Pluto's newly discovered geologic activity and possible volcanism, and offer a new method to predict planetary vigor ...