Scientists are astonished by the incredible features they've observed on the dwarf planet, including a 1,000 mile wide region covered in nitrogen snow that resembles a heart. But we have reason to ...

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We’ll finally get to meet the former ninth planet face-to-face—to really see its surface and that of its largest moon, Charon. Scientists have some guesses about what they might find ...

The possibility of life beyond Earth has filled our imaginations and been a driving force behind space exploration for ...

That's because Charon's mass is not that much smaller than ... you could actually consider this to be a "double (dwarf-)planet system" rather than a dwarf planet and its moon.

Pluto may have been downgraded from full-planet status, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hold a special place in scientist's ...

Mapping Pluto Broken Heart | This image was taken by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on the morning ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...