Giant, ridge-like structures of methane ice, known as "bladed terrain," may be much more abundant along Pluto's equator than ...

Pluto landed its largest moon, Charon, with a 'kiss'—overturning decades of scientific assumptions about how planetary bodies form and evolve. This is the conclusion of a new study, conducted at ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's atmosphere, while at the same time giving methane and other organic ...

Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

The space probe began making discoveries even before today's flyby. — -- Three billion miles and nearly ten years of travel led up to the moment NASA's New Horizons probe zoomed past Pluto ...

The spacecraft is in the midst of taking “hundreds” of images and science measurements, “about half” of them programmed for the day that surrounds closest approach to Pluto at 7:49:57 a.m ...

Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. The image was taken on July 13, 2015, when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles (768,000 kilometers) from the surface.

NASA spacecraft had visited all the other planets to study them by that point. In 2001, Stern and his colleagues won a NASA competition to lead a Pluto mission, which took off five years later.

The astronomers at Lowell Observatory in Arizona are showing Pluto some love on the 95th anniversary of its discovery, regardless of whether we call it a planet or not.

Pluto and its heart-shaped Sputnik Planitia as imaged by New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. (Image credit: NASA) In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted on the definition of a planet.

Outer space is my Roman Empire: I am on some level obsessing about it whenever I have a free moment. I will devour true ...

On this date, Jan. 19, 2006, the first probe ever destined to visit Pluto, its moons and other Kuiper belt objects launched from Launch Complex 41 at what is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.