Data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft point to more prevalent water ice on Pluto’s surface than previously thought. This false-color image, derived from observations in infrared light by the ...
New Horizons exposed Pluto as a surprisingly active world shaped by towering ice mountains, cryovolcanoes that erupt frozen mixtures instead of lava, and a possible hidden ocean sealed beneath a deep ...
Demoted planet Pluto may have an ice volcano on its surface the size of Yellowstone, scientists recently discovered. The newly discovered volcano, Kiladze Caldera, was originally pegged as a crater ...
(CNN) -- Images of Pluto captured by NASA's New Horizons mission have revealed a new surprise: ice volcanoes. The spacecraft performed a flyby of the dwarf planet and its moons in July 2015, and the ...
A crater named Kiladze on Pluto’s surface may be a supervolcano that once spewed massive amounts of icy material from the dwarf planet’s interior, according to new research. Data gathered by the New ...
Which planet is the furthest from the sun? Some may think it’s Pluto, but it’s actually Neptune. Learn more about this ice giant and how it can help us understand more about planets in our Solar ...
Scientists on NASA’s New Horizons mission team have determined multiple episodes of cryovolcanism may have created some kinds of surface structures on Pluto, the likes of which are not seen anywhere ...
For generations Pluto stood as the mythic ninth planet until a scientific revolution shattered that legacy and transformed it ...
For the same reason a glass bottle filled with water shatters when left to freeze, ice may have split Pluto's moon Charon wide open. Ice expands when it freezes. This simple fact of physics has ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Pluto is hazier than scientists expected and appears to be covered with flowing ice. The team responsible for the New Horizons flyby of Pluto last week released new ...
The informally named Wright Mons (Wright Mountain) is an unusual feature that's about 100 miles (160 km) wide and 13,000 feet (4 km) high. It displays a summit depression (dark hole in the center of ...