After years of research, scientists now hypothesize that giant dome-like formations that were first photographed by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015 were recently active icy volcanoes, also ...

Giant ice volcanos were active ‘relatively recently’ on Pluto, altering its surface, scientists say. Images taken of Pluto reveal a region of strange terrain previously unobserved in our solar system, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NASA releases a new image of Pluto’s largest ...

Data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft point to more prevalent water ice on Pluto’s surface than previously thought. This false-color image, derived from observations in infrared light by the ...

The New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past Pluto in 2015, is still making new findings. Most recently, researchers used its data to find traces of ammonia on Pluto’s surface. Intriguingly, the ...

NASA has released a new batch of images from the New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond, showing in the best detail yet the unexpectedly varied texture of the dwarf planet's surface. "It looks more ...

This week's discovery of 11,000-foot-high mountains on Pluto — and the implication that they're made of water ice — is stimulating all sorts of wonderings about what may be going on beneath the ...