The New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past Pluto in 2015, is still making new findings. Most recently, researchers used its data to find traces of ammonia on Pluto’s surface. Intriguingly, the ...

Pluto‘s heart might be hiding an ocean. Two studies published Wednesday by the journal Nature show that the dwarf planet’s surface might have been scarred when a smaller body slammed into it long ago.

For the first time, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto the primary target of the New Horizons close flyby in mid-July. The ...

It was about one year ago that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto in the outskirts of our solar system, but scientists have been observing scientific data ...

A new study has been looking into the dwarf planet known as Pluto. The dwarf planet was photographed back in 2015, and the photos showed that Pluto wasn't as barren as scientists believed. A ...

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University of Maryland astronomers Silvia Protopapa and Douglas Hamilton are among the authors of the first published paper from the New Horizons flyby, which appears in the Oct. 16, 2015, issue of ...

Pluto, once dismissed as stagnant and boring, is turning out to be as flamboyant as they come. Two new studies buttress the idea that Pluto is coyly concealing an ocean beneath its icy shell. The same ...

A Full View of Pluto's Stunning Crescent - In September, the New Horizons team released a stunning but incomplete image of Pluto's crescent. Thanks to new processing work by the science team, New ...

When the NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft buzzed by Pluto last year, it revealed tantalizing clues that the dwarf planet might have — or had at one time — a liquid ocean sloshing around under its icy ...

Pluto, once dismissed as stagnant and boring, is turning out to be as flamboyant as they come. Two new studies buttress the idea that Pluto is coyly concealing an ocean beneath its icy shell. The same ...