Whomst has awakened the ancient one?! NASA did. The New Horizons spacecraft has stirred from a nearly yearlong slumber almost ...

Pluto is probably home to many more landslides, the team says. Finding them, Brunetti says, will require more analysis of New ...

We now know Pluto much better, thanks to NASA's New Horizons mission, leaving CNET's Eric Mack to wonder how the former planet compares to our home rock. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since ...

A NASA satellite just woke up from hibernation in deep space. Here is what it can tell us - The probe is six billion miles ...

In 2015, the New Horizons space probe discovered spectacular snowcapped mountains on Pluto, which are strikingly similar to mountains on Earth. Such a landscape had never before been observed ...

Just when it seemed humanity’s most distant planetary explorer had gone quiet once again, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has awakened 6 billion miles from Earth, well beyond Pluto’s orbit. The timing ...

A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...

Once the quirky underdog of our solar system, Pluto held planetary status until 2006, when it got a cosmic demotion that still stings space fans. Discovered in 1930, Pluto was the ninth planet for ...

Pluto's snow-capped mountains look like they belong on Earth, but researchers have discovered that the snowy tops of these features are actually made of methane frost. These mountains gather snow in a ...

Using advanced models, SwRI led new research that indicates that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. In the resulting “kiss-and-capture” regime, Pluto and ...