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

Pluto is more than a distant dot in the sky it is a frozen frontier billions of kilometers away that no human has ever visited Discover the daring plans that nearly sent spacecraft to the ninth planet ...

As Dorothy might say, there's no place like Pluto. Scientists were expecting to be surprised when NASA's New Horizons probe barrelled past Pluto on July 14, but not this surprised. While the results ...

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters ...

Little Pluto and its little neighbours far from the sun are looking more like planets every day. The latest data beamed back by the New Horizons probe show the following list of planet-like features ...

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 ...

Members of the New Horizons science team react to seeing the spacecraft's last and sharpest image of Pluto. (Bill Ingalls/NASA) NASA confirmed Tuesday night that its New Horizons spacecraft ...

"It is particularly remarkable to see that two very similar landscapes on Earth and Pluto can be created by two very dissimilar processes," says one researcher. New research into Pluto's mountain ice ...

Scientists have released the first published scientific results from July's historic flyby of Pluto and its moons, highlighting new discoveries and the new mysteries that have arisen with those ...

TORONTO – Although the grainy images may not look that impressive to some, they’ve excited the astronomical community and fans of a tiny but certainly not-forgotten world on the edge of our solar ...

My Very Excellent Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets no longer works as a memory trick for students learning about the solar system now that the world's astronomers have decided Pluto is not a planet.