It would be understandable if you stopped thinking as much about Pluto after it was “demoted” from being considered one of the nine planets sharing the Earth’s solar system to being classified as a ...

Scientists have called for Pluto to be classified as a planet again following a new study into planetary science. Pluto was controversially relegated to the status of “dwarf planet” in 2006 by the ...

NASA’sNew Horizons spacecraft has delivered extraordinary video footage showing towering ice mountains on Pluto’s moon Nix. These ice peaks, some rising as high as 11,000 feet, are made of pure water ...

Pluto was supposed to be a frozen, lifeless relic drifting at the edge of the solar system. But when NASA’s New Horizons probe finally arrived, it found something far stranger. Beneath the nitrogen ...

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New research suggests that Pluto may have acquired its most massive moon, Charon, through an ancient grazing impact, which the science team refers to as a “kiss and capture”. The study uses computer ...

Since Pluto remains in the sun’s orbit, it should be considered a planet due to the fact that it is still a part of the solar system. And since Pluto is still hanging on at the end of the system, it ...

LAUREL, Md. — Alan Stern, head of the New Horizons mission to Pluto, had just three words for the team of scientists and engineers assembled with him on July 14: “We did it.” At 8:52:37 p.m. Eastern ...

The New Horizons spacecraft will buzz Pluto and its moons in just one day — one Pluto day, that is. The icy world rotates once for every 6 days, 9 hours and 22 minutes on Earth. Starting at 10:28 p.m.