Pluto may have been downgraded from full-planet status, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hold a special place in scientist's ...

We know about Pluto. But we don’t really know it. That will change on July 14, when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to fly within 8,000 miles of the frozen dwarf. It’s a risky ...

A century from now, NASA’s successful flyby of Pluto and its five known natural satellites will rank right ... The teams had to hone the New Horizons spacecraft’s 3 billion-mile flight ...

NASA has given a new lease of life to its New Horizons mission, which in 2015 got the first-ever close-ups images of dwarf planet Pluto. Thought to be a target for cost savings, according to Space ...

Before any mission to Pluto, scientists assumed that ... Charon is half the size of Pluto. The satellite is the closest in size to its parent of all the moon-planet pairs in our solar system.

Pluto's demotion remains controversial for some scientists, though, in part because of the way it was reclassified. Philip ...

The possibility of life beyond Earth has filled our imaginations and been a driving force behind space exploration for ...

Oct. 1, 2024 — Astronomers have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope.

In a recent discovery, scientists have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the icy surface of Pluto’s biggest ...

Things have been a mess since Pluto's demotion ... the moon was demoted to a satellite, and the sun got promoted. This worked for over 200 years, until William Herschel discovered Uranus and ...