Being heartbroken for 2 months fades in comparison to Pluto’s heart that has been broken for billions of years! Pluto’s mesmerizing heart was captured for the first time in 2015 by NASA’s ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

An curved arrow pointing right. After flying a space probe by Pluto for the first time last summer, NASA discovered an unusual "bite mark" feature on the surface. Produced by Jenner Deal.

Pluto — famous for being reclassified as a dwarf planet — might not have a heart of ice after all. In fact, every bit of Pluto was assumed to be frozen over considering its distance from the Sun.

This image uses 'false-colour' to show how the geology of Pluto's surface varies. It reveals how much light is reflected by different types of material. The white “heart” feature in the centre ...