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.

Ten days after NASA's New Horizons probe whizzed by Pluto, scientists say they are closer to understanding the remote world's most distinctive and intriguing feature – the heart-shaped patch named ...

Remarkable new images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are drastically rewriting scientists' understanding of Pluto and its large moon Charon and bolstering the case for the exploration of a host ...

The data suggests that the Pluto's surface was formed no more than 100 million years ago - a mere youngster in a 4.56-billion-year-old solar system. WASHINGTON: NASA's New Horizons probe has ...

The growling list of mysteries surrounding Pluto just got longer. On Oct. 8, NASA released the first color photo of Pluto's atmosphere, and the shade they saw was anything but expected: "Who would ...

The frozen heart of Pluto appears to double as the dwarf planet's lungs When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, it revealed an amazing sight - an immense bright feature on the ...

Images and data have been flowing in since NASA's epic New Horizons Pluto flyby on Tuesday morning, and the latest image released shows an exaggerated color map of Pluto and its moon Charon. The ...

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 ...

An underground ocean once sloshed beneath the surface of Pluto, while winds ripped overtop, carving dune fields along the way, data from the New Horizons mission suggests. NASA's New Horizons's ...

The newest image of Pluto's ice fields offers a fascinating glimpse of what researchers believe is the movement of huge, solid nitrogen ice blobs on the surface of the distant dwarf planet. Received ...

Planetary scientist Adeene Denton runs computer simulations to investigate Pluto, the moons of Saturn and other icy bodies in the solar system.