The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Ever since the cameras of NASA's New Horizons mission discovered a large heart-shaped structure on the surface of the dwarf planet Pluto in 2015, this "heart" has puzzled scientists because of its ...

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

“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 ...

Sputnik Planitia is approximately 1,600km wide and sits at a lower elevation than the rest of Pluto’s surface. “The formation of Sputnik Planitia provides a critical window into the earliest ...

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 ...

Pluto is too far away from Earth to be seen with the naked eye. If you stood on Pluto's surface, the Sun would merely appear to be a very bright star. Although previous images showed that ...

Our love horoscopes for March 17, 2025 predict a helpful truth coming to the surface when the Scorpio Moon aligns with Pluto, ...

Discovered in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Pluto was hailed as the ninth planet in our solar system. For decades, it captivated imaginations with its icy surface and distant ...