University of Maryland astronomers Silvia Protopapa and Douglas Hamilton are among the authors of the first published paper from the New Horizons flyby, which appears in the Oct. 16, 2015, issue of ...

The New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past Pluto in 2015, is still making new findings. Most recently, researchers used its data to find traces of ammonia on Pluto’s surface. Intriguingly, the ...

Although it has been close to a decade since NASA's New Horizons spacecraft visited Pluto, the dwarf planet continues to reveal itself as a surprisingly complex world. Instead of molten rock that ...

New research suggests Pluto once had an ocean on its surface. Evidence for the theory comes from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft which spotted unique cracks on the dwarf planet's surface. Pluto may ...

For the first time, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto the primary target of the New Horizons close flyby in mid-July. The ...

Pluto may be a more habitable world than scientists had thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Though Pluto is now famously ...

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The scientists have more work to do, with observations scheduled for Saturday. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For a brief moment ...

With just a single flyby, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has already revealed that Pluto is an active little world with mountains and an atmosphere. Now it’s found another surprisingly Earth-like ...

On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons flew by Pluto. At a resolution of only 80 meters (260 feet) per pixel, Pluto was revealed at resolutions thousands of times better than Hubble. The mountains only ...