The rare encounter revealed a distant world with giant ice sheets, mountains, valleys, and terrains unlike any other seen in ...

For years, Pluto was viewed as a distant, frozen world whose dramatic landscapes seemed locked in time. A new study published ...

Learn how landslides detected on Pluto for the first time reveal the active geologic processes that shape the dwarf planet's surface. Landslides cause a lot of chaos on Earth, as rocks and other ...

Recent images captured by New Horizons have unveiled six substantial landslides on Pluto, revealing intriguing gravitational ...

Motivated by the New Horizons mission, we consider how Pluto’s small satellites — currently P5, Nix, P4, and Hydra — grow in debris from the giant impact that forms the Pluto-Charon binary or in solid ...

The Pluto-Charon system provides a broad variety of constraints on planetary formation, composition, chemistry, and evolution. Pluto was the first body to be discovered in what is now known as the ...

Ever since NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto last year, evidence has been mounting that the dwarf planet may have a liquid ocean beneath its icy shell. Now, by modeling the impact dynamics ...

In the outer reaches of our Solar System, 5.7 billion kilometres from the Sun, lies the dwarf planet Pluto. Smaller than Australia, it is an icy world of mountains, glaciers and craters where the ...