When NASA’s New Horizons mission flew past Pluto in 2015, it gave humanity our first glimpse of a colossal depression on the isolated world. It's named Sputnik Planitia. Comparable in size to the ...

"The Pluto flyby happened, and I was in the right place at the right time - perfectly positioned to fall in love with it," ...

Pluto is more than a distant dot in the sky it is a frozen frontier billions of kilometers away that no human has ever visited Discover the daring plans that nearly sent spacecraft to the ninth planet ...

A huge heart-shaped feature on the surface of Pluto has intrigued astronomers since NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured it in a 2015 image. Now, researchers think they have solved the mystery of ...

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters ...

Eighteen years ago today, Pluto lost its planetary status in a vote by International Astronomical Union (IAU) members on the final day of their 2006 general assembly meeting. The word "planet" comes ...

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Not every talk at the Chaos Communication Congress is about hacking computers. In this outstanding and educational talk, [Michael Büker] walks us through the history of our understanding of the ...

Researchers simulate how an ancient impact left a pear-shaped dent on Pluto. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When NASA’s New ...