KISSIMMEE, Fla. — New images of Pluto beamed back to Earth from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show the dwarf planet's flat plains and "icebergs" floating in a sea of nitrogen ice in amazing ...

Nitrogen ice glaciers on Pluto appear to carry numerous hills that may be fragments of water ice, according to NASA, which has analyzed images and data from the New Horizons spacecraft. The hills, ...

Just like Earth has icebergs that float in icy oceans, Pluto also has hills of floating water ice glaciers. What makes these large chunks of water ice on the dwarf planet different from Earth's ...

Hills of water-ice appear to be floating atop the frozen nitrogen within Pluto's icy heart. Scientists working with data sent to Earth from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft think that the hills are ...

Since New Horizon’s flyby last July, Pluto has been a trove of unique geology and bizarre phenomena. Astronomers have tried to understand the most puzzling ones, and they might already have an ...

For much of the past year, scientists on NASA's New Horizons mission have scoured through images of Pluto to analyze the geographical features of the dwarf planet. After publishing shots of mountain ...

NASA just presented an intriguing, but rational, explanation for one of the most recent space mysteries to date—Pluto’s moving hills. Pluto’s complex terrain features a hill cluster located in the ...

Hills of water ice on Pluto 'float' in a sea of frozen nitrogen and move over time like icebergs in Earth's Arctic Ocean - another example of Pluto's fascinating geological activity.(NASA photo) ...

Mysterious Pluto floats around the periphery of our solar system while we here on Earth periodically debate its status. A few days from now, some of the mystery shrouding an icy rock that is more than ...