The rare encounter revealed a distant world with giant ice sheets, mountains, valleys, and terrains unlike any other seen in ...

For years, Pluto was viewed as a distant, frozen world whose dramatic landscapes seemed locked in time. A new study published ...

Charon and Pluto are locked in a celestial dance. The dwarf planet and its largest moon are not that dissimilar in size, and ...

PASADENA, Calif. — Scientists may have spotted more than a half dozen clouds in Pluto's hazy atmosphere, researchers announced Tuesday. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto in July 2015, ...

There is a debate in the scientific community over whether Pluto should be a planet again. But a new study affirms that the dwarf planet's "beating heart" is impacting its atmospheric circulation ...

Scientists have detected evidence of landslides on Pluto for the first time. A paper published in the journal Icarus reports ...

Die-hard Pluto fans still seeking redemption for their demoted planet have cause for despair this week. New data shows that the dwarf planet Eris is 27 percent more massive than Pluto, thereby ...

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A lot of people were pretty upset when Pluto got its big demotion. And we get it. It's nice to have some consistency in a chaotic universe. But it's time to put that elementary-school nostalgia away ...

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