Pluto, once seen as a frozen dot at the edge of the solar system, has turned out to be a geologically dynamic place where ...
NASA's record-breaking New Horizons spacecraft has awoken from a 321-day hibernation in "good health" as it resumes ...
Terrestrial planets experience landslides in spades, and so do some moons, asteroids and comets. But — until now — they’ve never been definitively spotted on Pluto, even though the icy world has all ...
Recent images captured by New Horizons have unveiled six substantial landslides on Pluto, revealing intriguing gravitational ...
NASA's record-breaking New Horizons spacecraft has awoken from a 321-day hibernation in "good health" as it resumes unprecedented science at the solar system's edge.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected an unexplained chemical signature on both Pluto and Saturn's moon Titan.
Charon is uniquely suited for this kind of detective work. It has no atmosphere, limited resurfacing, and craters more than 4 ...
New research suggests Charon's oldest landscapes preserve evidence of early despinning. Tectonic features in Oz Terra ...
A suspected subsurface ocean on Pluto might be old and deep. New analyses of images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft suggest that the dwarf planet has had an underground ocean since shortly after ...
Nearly eight years after its historic Pluto flyby, NASA's New Horizons probe is getting ready for another round of observations made from the icy edge of the solar system—and this time, its field of ...