We now know Pluto much better, thanks to NASA's New Horizons mission, leaving CNET's Eric Mack to wonder how the former planet compares to our home rock. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since ...
Pluto's snow-capped mountains look like they belong on Earth, but researchers have discovered that the snowy tops of these features are actually made of methane frost. Pluto's snow-capped mountains ...
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"The Pluto flyby happened, and I was in the right place at the right time - perfectly positioned to fall in love with it," ...
Using advanced models, SwRI led new research that indicates that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. In the resulting “kiss-and-capture” regime, Pluto and ...
Mysterious Pluto floats around the periphery of our solar system while we here on Earth periodically debate its status. A few days from now, some of the mystery shrouding an icy rock that is more than ...
A ground-based telescope has snapped the sharpest image yet of Pluto and its moon Charon taken in visible light from Earth. The Gemini North 8-meter telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i captured the photo ...
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Imagine a world where Earth is as small as Pluto and see how our planet would change overnight. Body Language Experts Say ...