The heart's brightness arises from sunlight reflection, while red patches, formed by tholins, showcase Pluto's atmospheric ...

Once thought to be a frozen, lifeless dwarf planet, Pluto is proving to be surprisingly dynamic. New Horizons revealed ...

Ted Stryk, Roane State associate professor of philosophy and English, had an asteroid named in his honor upon providing crucial image processing work used in NASA's Pluto exploration. His work was ...

Scientists studying the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua have proposed that it may be a fragment from a Pluto-like planet beyond ...

The search for life beyond Earth has reached a fever pitch, with possible locations to find even microbial life being Mars, Jupiter’s moon Europa, Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus, Neptune’s moon ...

Twenty-Seven Years and Three Billion Miles -- A New Planet -- Gaps -- "With the Tip of a Pen" -- Post-Discovery Controversies -- The Search for Planet X -- Clyde's Planet -- Planetary Astronomy -- ...

"This mission should be able to image the whole of Pluto. It should be phenomenal." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When NASA's ...

Preface: Inside the farthest exploration in history -- Introduction: Out of lock -- Dreams of a grand tour -- The Pluto underground -- Ten years in the wilderness -- The undead -- New Horizons at last ...