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. That's why my ...

Pluto may have been downgraded from full-planet status, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hold a special place in scientist's hearts. There are practical and sentimental reasons for that—Pluto has ...

That is one of the surprising conclusions of photographs taken 3.6 billion miles away by the earth probe New Horizons, which flew by the dwarf planet Pluto last week, according to Cable News Network ...

Subaru Telescope has been collaborating with the NASA’s first Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission called “New Horizons.” This article introduces the mission features and research contents. Solar system ...

The first mission to distant planet Pluto is under way after the successful launch today of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. New Horizons roared into the ...

Whomst has awakened the ancient one?! NASA did. The New Horizons spacecraft has stirred from a nearly yearlong slumber almost 10 billion kilometers from Earth, at the edge of the Solar System, where ...

Dark markings along the northern edge of Sputnik Planitia, the vast nitrogen-ice glacier that dominates one face of Pluto, are best explained by liquid nitrogen that recently reached the surface, ...

Pluto. Elements of this image furnished by NASA/Getty Images When the International Astronomical Union announced in 2006 that Pluto was being demoted from its status as the Sun’s ninth planet, many ...