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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...