In July, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time. The photos the craft sent back so far have astounded researchers. New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says ...

Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Peroxide on Pluto's Moon Charon Oct. 1, 2024 — Astronomers have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Pluto's largest moon ...

NASA's Webb Space Telescope has identified new clues about the surface of Pluto's largest moon. It detected for the first time traces of carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of ...

And that young, smooth swatch has a really important implication: It could mean that Pluto has an active sub-surface that keeps resurfacing and smoothing over the top layer, Zuber said.

The mission, which was launched in 2006, took detailed photographs of the surface of Pluto, a dwarf planet and the largest object in the Kuiper belt. Now, a new scientific article published in the ...

This story appears in the July 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Small, cold, and absurdly far away, Pluto has always been selfish with its secrets. Since its discovery in 1930, the ...

The picture reveals a small rectangle of Pluto’s surface at the edge of the recently discovered heart-shaped formation. Measuring about 60km across, it is one frame of a mosaic of high ...

Artistic representation of the huge and slow impact on Pluto that led to the heart-shaped Sputnik ... [+] Planitia structure on its surface. Ever since NASA's New Horizons sent back the first-ever ...

An curved arrow pointing right. After flying a space probe by Pluto for the first time last summer, NASA discovered an unusual "bite mark" feature on the surface. Produced by Jenner Deal.

I have been working with my research advisor, Leslie Young (Southwest Research Institute), on surface spectra of Pluto, Charon, and Triton. Upcoming and ongoing work includes reduction of Keck/OSIRIS ...

Pluto, a planet that used to be one of the big nine, might have oceans under its surface. Pluto was thought to be entirely frozen over 800 million years ago but a discovery of a gaseous layer ...