Pluto quiz: Can you figure out this dwarf planet?
Once hailed as the ninth planet, Pluto has long captured the imagination of stargazers and…
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Pluto’s hazy skies are making the dwarf planet even colder, James Webb Space Telescope finds
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto…
Leaving Pluto in the dust: New Horizons probe gearing up for epic crossing of ‘termination shock’
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first and only flyby of the Pluto system, culminating…
Pluto and the largest moon of Neptune might be siblings
Triton, left, and Pluto (not shown to scale) may be long-lost siblingsJPL/NASA//Johns Hopkins University Applied…
We could float effortlessly in Pluto’s subsurface ocean
Pluto's surface, fitting for a world whose surface shivers at a cryogenic -364 F (-220…
Pluto TV will rally to make Pluto a planet again on April 1 (it’s no joke)
Pluto may have lost its status as a full-fledged planet in 2006, but that doesn't…
Pluto’s ‘almost twin’ dwarf planet Eris is surprisingly squishy
Close to 18 years ago, astronomers spotted a miniature, icy world named Eris billions of…
Passing star could fling Earth out past Pluto into the Oort cloud
Could Earth end up in the Oort cloud?Shutterstock / Dotted Yeti If a passing star…
Supervolcano eruption on Pluto hints at hidden ocean beneath the surface
Although it has been close to a decade since NASA's New Horizons spacecraft visited Pluto,…
Ice-spewing supervolcano may have been found on Pluto
A photo of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons missionNASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest…