Just over three months ago on July 14, the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past Pluto, reaching its long-awaited closest approach and marking the first-ever flyby of the dwarf planet. By the time the ...

New Horizons has revealed a degree of diversity and complexity in the Pluto system that few expected in the frigid outer reaches of the solar system. The New Horizons team describes a wide range of ...

Scientists have spent 12 years arguing over how to classify Pluto, and a recently published paper offers a new — but surprisingly old — reason for restoring the object's planetary status. The new ...

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The first scientific review of data collected during the New Horizons flyby of Pluto describe a small world with a thin but surprisingly complex atmosphere and a variety of surface features, ranging ...

The first science paper to describe Pluto and its satellites after the New Horizons flyby has been released, just three months after the NASA spacecraft made its historic encounter with the ...

Maybe Pluto is a planet after all. The icy ball at the outer edge of the solar system was considered a planet from its discovery in 1930 until 2006, when a global astronomy organization made the ...

Less than a year ago, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft was fast approaching Pluto, the discoveries since have transformed the way astronomers and the world views the complicated dwarf planet. The team ...