The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

A NASA spacecraft far from Earth has made an unexpected discovery, after turning its instruments towards a dark patch of sky ...

Every year, the Lowell Observatory hosts the I Heart Pluto Festival to celebrate the discovery and significance of the King of the Kuiper Belt. This event brings together scientists, space ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first and only flyby of the Pluto system, culminating at the closest approach of that distant world in July 2015. Sailing onward, the probe carried out ...

Why was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet? One might think that it’s purely a matter of size. Mercury, the smallest of the ...

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“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...

Mickey sends Pluto out to fetch the newspaper this time only to be taken aboard an alien spacecraft where he is examined with tools and uses the transformation ray to make him to have 2 legs and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This high-resolution image captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft combines blue, red and ...