A huge heart-shaped feature on the surface of Pluto has intrigued astronomers since NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured it in a 2015 image. Now, researchers think they have solved the mystery of ...

When NASA’s New Horizons mission flew past Pluto in 2015, it gave humanity our first glimpse of a colossal depression on the isolated world. It's named Sputnik Planitia. Comparable in size to the ...

Pluto may have been demoted to non-planet status, but it still commands a court of five moons, as is fitting for the king of darkness; after all, Pluto is the Roman equivalent of the Greek God Hades.

Pluto is so far away from Earth that everything we know about it can be written down on a couple of 3 x 5 inch index cards. But Pluto will come into clearer focus in a few years' time, though, as NASA ...

The latest photos from the New Horizons spacecraft give us the clearest view yet of the mysterious world Pluto. NASA scientists are squeezing as much information as they can from the pictures taken ...

New information about Pluto's largest moon that was revealed by a NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) telescope was shared publicly this week. The journal Nature Communications on ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took this stunning image of Pluto only a few minutes after closest approach on July 14, 2015. The image was obtained at a high phase angle -that is, with the sun on the ...

When the International Astronomical Union announced in 2006 that Pluto was being demoted from its status as the Sun’s ninth planet, many astronomers and non-experts alike were shocked. Pluto remains ...

Pluto is only about 1,400 miles wide. At that size, Pluto is smaller than India which is about 1,822 miles from Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh.