Pluto was downgraded from planet to dwarf planet in 2016, and now, scientists say the rock may actually be a sort of giant comet, having formed when a billion or so comets clumped together during the ...
"This mission should be able to image the whole of Pluto. It should be phenomenal." When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sped by Pluto in 2015, it revealed an incredible world of ice and haze carved by ...
NASA has released new images of Pluto’s far side, a region never before captured in high resolution. Taken by the New Horizons spacecraft as it sped away from the dwarf planet, the photos reveal icy ...