Pluto's snow-capped mountains look like they belong on Earth, but researchers have discovered that the snowy tops of these features are actually made of methane frost. Pluto's snow-capped mountains ...

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Using advanced models, SwRI led new research that indicates that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. In the resulting “kiss-and-capture” regime, Pluto and ...

Two space rocks are raising huge scientific questions and may pose some answers regarding the nature of our planet and of another solar system body, Pluto. Pluto has long been under siege by skeptics ...

Pluto receives enough sunlight to be about as bright as midday on Earth during specific times, despite being a dwarf planet 7 ...

"The Pluto flyby happened, and I was in the right place at the right time - perfectly positioned to fall in love with it," ...

Nearly three years after NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, we’re still learning about the dwarf planet. A study published Thursday in the journal Science reveals that the dwarf planet ...

New information about Pluto's largest moon that was revealed by a NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) telescope was shared publicly this week. The journal Nature Communications on ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- High winds forced NASA to scrub the launch Tuesday of an unmanned spacecraft on a nine-year, 3 billion-mile voyage to Pluto, the solar system's last unexplored planet.

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 ...