That engine fashioned Pluto’s rich tapestry of flowing glaciers, jagged mountains and other unfamiliar terrestrial features on the surface. To date, only a single mission, the 2015 New Horizons ...

Far from being flat and boring, Pluto seemed to be full of mountains, plains and maybe even "snow". By measuring the size of the shadows, we could estimate the height of these peaks at over 4,000m ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

Artistic representation of the huge and slow impact on Pluto that led to the heart-shaped Sputnik ... [+] Planitia structure on its surface. Ever since NASA's New Horizons sent back the first-ever ...

A blue atmosphere, smooth areas, and youthful mountain ranges - this dwarf planet is full of surprises. When NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in July 2015, the images it returned astonished ...

The flyby of New Horizons nine years later revealed Pluto to be geologically active and complex, with nitrogen-ice plains, mountain ranges, dunes and ice volcanoes. It was shown to have its own ...