You can't fly to Pluto. You will never have the opportunity to set foot on its inhospitable surface. It took NASA's New Horizons spacecraft over nine years just to get close. Don't let this deter you ...

Pluto has had a tough few years since losing its planet status. In the years since its demotion, NASA scientists found the trans-Neptunian object to be a colder, hazier hellscape than once believed, ...

We now know Pluto much better, thanks to NASA's New Horizons mission, leaving CNET's Eric Mack to wonder how the former planet compares to our home rock. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since ...

Pluto’s snow-capped mountains look like they belong on Earth, but researchers have discovered that the snowy tops of these features are actually made of methane frost. These mountains gather snow in a ...

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As the western world woke up Tuesday, a once-in-a-lifetime event went down: Humanity made its first-ever visit to Pluto. Earth's emissary was NASA's robotic New Horizons spacecraft, and it performed a ...

Tomorrow, when New Horizons makes its historic flyby of Pluto, it will be focusing in on just one face of the dwarf planet. In this latest photo captured by the space probe's black-and-white LORRI ...

Could there be life in Pluto’s liquid water ocean? If so, the “habitable zones” around distant stars where astronomers look for signs of life must be dramatically larger than anyone thought. If life ...

We can often use our knowledge of planet Earth to explain the things we see on other worlds, although we may have to tweak the physics to account for a different temperature or a tenuous atmosphere.

After nine years, 3 billion miles and then 31 long hours after yesterday’s historic flyby, the first richly-detailed images of Pluto and its moons have been released. And it’s gorgeous. Images show ...

A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...