Pluto once held its place proudly as the ninth planet in our solar system,a distant, icy world on the edge of the cosmic frontier. But in 2006, everything changed. This in-depth explainer unpacks the ...

At the far reaches of our Solar System lies Pluto, a mysterious world shrouded in shadows and icy terrain. NASA’s latest ...

An area of Pluto that researchers think was formed from the eruption of ice volcanoes is unique on the dwarf planet and in the solar system, a new study suggests, hinting at surprisingly recent ...

Leading Science Museum Says Pluto Is Lump Of Ice. One of the nation's leading science museums has quietly shaken up the universe by suggesting that Pluto is not necessarily a planet at all, but ...

Images of Pluto captured by NASA’s New Horizons mission have revealed a region full of giant ice volcanoes on the dwarf planet. These volcanoes were recently active and may support the idea that ...

In July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft gave humanity its only close-up of Pluto.The spacecraft found that the dwarf planet, far from being a featureless and frigid orb, was an ostentatious ...

Pluto was long considered our ninth planet, but the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet in ...

At this moment, Pluto is still classified as a dwarf planet. Despite ongoing debate and public support for its reinstatement, the International Astronomical Union has not changed its 2006 decision.

Pluto’s icy shell is thought to have a depth of at least 185 miles, which gives the researchers confidence that they’re right. The presence of other types of ice, such as frozen nitrogen and ...

Though Pluto has formally been considered a dwarf planet for almost two decades, it still has many lessons left for planetary scientists — including hints about how the solar system formed.

ice that covers much of the planet's surface," Dale Cruikshank, ... Pluto's bedrock is mostly water ice, with a thin layer of methane and nitrogen surface ice on top, ...