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 ...

Although it has been close to a decade since NASA's New Horizons spacecraft visited Pluto, the dwarf planet continues to reveal itself as a surprisingly complex world. Instead of molten rock that ...

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 ...

New research suggests Pluto once had an ocean on its surface. Evidence for the theory comes from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft which spotted unique cracks on the dwarf planet's surface. Pluto may ...

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted new evidence of complex organic molecules — the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it — on the frigid surface of Pluto, a new study finds.

Pluto may be a more habitable world than scientists had thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Though Pluto is now famously ...

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New Horizons is still 70-million miles (113-million km) from Pluto, but the spacecraft starting to see some surface features on the dwarf planet, including a possible ice cap at its pole. Earlier this ...

New research has shed light on how Pluto’s famous heart-shaped plane of frozen nitrogen creates winds in the dwarf planet’s thin atmosphere, that lead to vast discolorations on its bright surface. The ...

Pluto’s recategorization as a dwarf planet may have caused some past anger, but there has never been a better time to be a Pluto fan. Since the New Horizons mission gave us our first real look at ...