Though technically not a planet, it has as rich geology as any of its planetary siblings in the solar system A color-enhanced photo of Pluto that was captured by the New Horizons spacecraft in ...

Scientists have noticed something strange about Pluto and its big moon, Charon, and it's making them rethink a lot! Unlike most moons, Charon is almost half the size of Pluto, so they actually orbit ...

This portrait of Pluto is in enhanced color, to illustrate differences in the composition and texture of Pluto's surface. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of ...

Pluto, our power planet of seismic change, is stationing direct in the sign of the sea goat for the final time in our lifetimes. On Friday, Oct. 11, Pluto will go direct at a fateful 29 degrees of ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA released this video made from over 100 high-resolution images taken of the former planet Pluto. It gives us a never-before-seen view of the details on the surface.

The changing faces of Pluto| The predominant color of Pluto's surface is thought to result from ultraviolet radiation from the distant Sun breaking down methane on the planet's surface, leaving a dark ...

A century from now, NASA’s successful flyby of Pluto and its five known natural ... lunar surface and the Viking 1 lander sent its first color photos from Mars. Yet unlike getting to the Moon ...

Images and data have been flowing in since NASA's epic New Horizons Pluto flyby on Tuesday morning, and the latest image released shows an exaggerated color map of Pluto and its moon Charon.

Things have been a mess since Pluto's demotion. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted on the definition of a planet. Famously, Pluto no longer met the criteria and was demoted ...

Charon is the largest moon of Pluto. It’s also one of the most significant objects in the Kuiper Belt, the region of the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

To follow up on NASA's New Horizons mission that revealed Pluto's 'heart,' SwRI is studying a new Pluto orbiter mission for NASA. SwRI has shown it is possible to orbit Pluto and then escape orbit ...