New Horizons has revealed a degree of diversity and complexity in the Pluto system that few expected in the frigid outer reaches of the solar system. The New Horizons team describes a wide range of ...

This composite of enhanced color images that NASA’s New Horizons mission took when it flew near Pluto (lower right) and Charon (upper left) on July 14, 2015. While Pluto and Charon’s true separation ...

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 today, ...

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters ...

Mickey sends Pluto out to fetch the newspaper this time only to be taken aboard an alien spacecraft where he is examined with tools and uses the transformation ray to make him to have 2 legs and turns ...

Researchers simulate how an ancient impact left a pear-shaped dent on Pluto. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When NASA’s New ...

Scientists have worked out the mystery of why Pluto has a heart. Researchers believe the huge heart-shaped feature on the planet's surface was likely caused by a "giant and slow oblique-angle impact".

Scientists have detected methane gas glowing faintly above Makemake, an icy dwarf planet smaller and farther than Pluto in space. Until now, Pluto was the only object that far out in the solar system ...