When was Pluto discovered? Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, an American astronomer at the Lowell Observatory ...

Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies ...

the New Horizons probe's close encounter with Pluto lasted just six days as it hurtled past at nearly 50,000 kilometres an hour. I was lucky enough to witness, first-hand, the first images sent ...

It was not until 1994 that the Hubble Space Telescope produced the first image of both Pluto and Charon with clear space between them. Christy's discovery was important because the existence of ...

A blue atmosphere, smooth areas, and youthful mountain ranges - this dwarf planet is full of surprises. When NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in July 2015, the images it returned astonished ...

NASA on Friday released its first glimpse of a strange mosaic of ice on Pluto. WSJ's Robert Lee Hotz reports. Photo: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI ...

Planitia structure on its surface. Ever since NASA's New Horizons sent back the first-ever photos of Pluto in 2015, the dwarf planet's mysterious heart-shaped region has puzzled scientists.

This cutaway image of Pluto shows a section through the area of Sputnik Planitia, with dark blue representing a subsurface ocean and light blue for the frozen crust. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

New Horizons image of Pluto (right) and Charon (left). (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI) "The compelling thing about this study is that the model parameters that work to capture Charon, end up putting it in the ...

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft, one of the most advanced ever built, is scheduled to fly by Pluto to take the very first detailed images of the dwarf planet. After nine years and 3 ...

Tthe dwarf planet Pluto (R) and Charon are shown July 11, 2015. (Photo by NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI via Getty ... [+] Images) Researchers studying Pluto and Charon have long drawn a parallel to how Earth ...

In 2019, the New Horizons Probe, which had already provided the first closeup images of Pluto, flew past Arrokoth, another Kuiper Belt object. Arrokoth has the shape of a snowman, with two large ...