The rare encounter revealed a distant world with giant ice sheets, mountains, valleys, and terrains unlike any other seen in the solar system. By reexamining those iconic images, scientists believe ...

A groundbreaking mission that explored Pluto and distant solar system objects in unprecedented detail has awakened from its longest sleep ever — and it’s 5.9 billion miles from Earth. NASA’s New ...

Dark streaks along Pluto’s giant nitrogen glacier may mark places where liquid nitrogen recently reached and flowed across ...

Nearly 11 years after NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made humanity’s first close flyby of Pluto, scientists have returned to ...

Liquid nitrogen on Pluto is now supported by the first physical evidence: a SwRI-led study published July 31 in the Planetary ...

Indeed, because Pluto is so far away and so utterly unknown, the mission’s findings could radically change our thinking about many things. New Horizons could provide important clues for understanding ...

Pluto is on an icy march away from the sun. In 2114, it will turn back, but until then, its elliptical orbit will carry it to ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made an astonishing visit to Arrokoth, a remote Kuiper Belt object, uncovering vital clues about the solar system's early formation. This ancient body exhibits a ...

The Pluto-bound spacecraft New Horizons has caught its first glimpse of the rocky planet-like object from 4.2 billion kilometres away. The images were snapped by the NASA spacecraft’s Long Range ...

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) provides evidence that liquid nitrogen is rising to Pluto's surface ...