Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...
When Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930, he could not have known that he was opening a whole field of science that is only now coming into its own: the study of planetary landscapes, or ...
LAUREL, Md. (Reuters) - A U.S. spacecraft sailed past the tiny planet Pluto in the distant reaches of the solar system on Tuesday, capping a journey of 3 billion miles (4.88 billion km) that began ...
Traditional theories suggest that Pluto's formation process is similar to that of other celestial bodies in the Kuiper Belt, ...
A huge heart-shaped feature on the surface of Pluto has intrigued astronomers since NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured it in a 2015 image. Now, researchers think they have solved the mystery of ...
Pluto has been added to the University of Arizona’s scale-model walking tour of the solar system, but will that be enough to mend the dwarf planet’s broken heart? Not likely, according to a recent ...
A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects ...