Pluto pulled Adeene Denton into its orbit during her undergraduate internship at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. It was summer 2015, when the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.