NASA launched a spacecraft to Pluto! New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano, and it became the first ...

University of Arizona researchers have unveiled evidence of romance at the farthest reaches of the solar system: a cosmic ...

Pluto, a distant and fascinating dwarf planet, has revealed more of its secrets. Thanks to New Horizons, discover stunning ...

NASA launched the New Horizons probe which would provide never-before-seen images of the dwarf planet, its moons and other objects.

Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...

Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...

This mission marked the first time a spacecraft was sent to explore Pluto, providing unprecedented images and data about the celestial object and its surroundings. Multimedia editor Rob Landers ...

This composite image of Pluto, right, and Charon, its largest moon, showcases photos captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI Unlike how scientists ...

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a celestial collision Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent The “demoted ...