When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, it revealed a world far more active and complex than scientists expected. Researchers later found evidence that a liquid ocean may exist ...

University of Maryland astronomers Silvia Protopapa and Douglas Hamilton are among the authors of the first published paper from the New Horizons flyby, which appears in the Oct. 16, 2015, issue of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have identified carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Pluto’s largest moon for the first time. Data ...

For the first time, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto the primary target of the New Horizons close flyby in mid-July. The ...

For decades, Pluto remained one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, until July 14, 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to visit it up close, capturing ...

Pluto will complete its first orbit since 1930 in 2178, a historic 248-year space journey that spans generations of humans.

The mystery of how Pluto got a giant heart-shaped feature on its surface has finally been solved by an international team of astrophysicists. The team is the first to successfully reproduce the ...

Pluto's icy volcanic region, with possible past eruptions marked in blue. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Isaac Herrera/Kelsi Singer Images of ...

Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was ...

JWST detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on Charon's surface. Hydrogen peroxide suggests ongoing chemical reactions on Charon. Charon's carbon dioxide likely came from below its surface.

Scientists have discovered carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, offering clues about the origins of the space rock and other celestial objects in the ...