"The Pluto flyby happened, and I was in the right place at the right time - perfectly positioned to fall in love with it," ...

Pluto is more than a distant dot in the sky it is a frozen frontier billions of kilometers away that no human has ever visited Discover the daring plans that nearly sent spacecraft to the ninth planet ...

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters ...

A new study proposes that Pluto formed rapidly with a hot interior, subsequently sustaining a subsurface liquid ocean for billions of years, contrary to prior cold-start formation theories. Geological ...

Pluto’s thin, blue haze glows in this image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. Though the dwarf planet is just a faint speck through a telescope, opposition this month offers skywatchers their best ...

Think you can spot Pluto? On July 25, the famously elusive dwarf planet reaches opposition—its best and brightest moment of the year. That makes now the ideal time to try to catch a glimpse of it from ...